So says the New Economic Foundation: We are approaching a fundamental choice: do we continue trying to appease the markets by clinging to a set of self-imposed constraints that block the kind of spending needed to improve living standards and revive growth?

 Well, she did let people buy their own homes.

Fraser Nelson tells us of how bad the national debt situation is. Much of which is spot on.

In June, PRS said it paid out a record £1.02bn to rights holders last year, up 8% on 2023, beating its five-year plan to top £1bn by 2026.

It is not necessarily true that more government means more of the thing government is now additionally doing.

We’ve had a Nobel Laureate in economics, one who gained his NL for his study of taxation systems.

One of the problems faced by small and start-up businesses is that they face a body of regulations designed for businesses as a whole, despite the fact that the small ones find it difficult to cope with the cost of compliance.

No, no, that rumour that the fall of the Wall meant we actually got smoking two strokes instead of purring V8s is untrue.

For Britain and much of the West, China is a paradox glimpsed through the looking glass - half miracle, half challenge; a formidable force both admired and misunderstood.

I said in my paper ‘Broken Britain’ of November 2024, that most things in the UK don’t work properly.

Vegan burgers that “bleed” like meat have been blocked from being introduced in Britain for four years because of delays and red tape.