Category: Inequality

Solving the UK Energy Price Crisis

The UK energy price spike should be addressed directly and the rest of the economy isolated as much as possible

It’s pretty dismal if you’re left-leaning in the UK right now. Not only did Labour lose the election catastrophically and

I noted on Tuesday Nick Boles’ suggestion in a keynote speech at the Resolution Foundation (pdf) to limit certain pensioner

Note (12:15 11/7/12): Corrected in 2nd paragraph following a communication from the Resolution Foundation – they are focussed on issues

I reported yesterday that TfL is planning to increase fares on average by RPI+2 each year until 2018, and Travelcard

Boris has announced the 2012 London Transport fare increases already. Do we always get an announcement at this time of

Labour is choosing to attack today’s VAT rise as “the wrong tax at the wrong time”. I’m not so sure.

Over the last few decades, here in the UK, we’ve become very good at pointing to apparent failure. Often despite

I see John Redwood was up bright and early this morning, blogging away. At 6:34am he posted that: “…the [cuts]