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George Osborne – A Jack Of All Trades
George Osborne’s latest antics have led him back into the political spotlight for all the wrong reasons. The former chancellor has decided to “cash in” after leaving the government frontbenches and has been taking
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Arsene Wenger and George Osborne share a common feature: they are both massively overrated.
Premier League titles for Arsenal fans to boast about have been non-existent recently. No major wins in Europe, and for such an expensive ticket price, world class signings and a well-regarded manager, you might
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Health Campaigners Have Every Right to Encourage Healthy Eating, but not to Dictate Government Health Policy
So George Osborne has caved into the demands of the health campaigners in announcing a sugar levy on sugary drinks from 2018. Bizarrely though, it won’t apply to all sugary drinks. Seemingly, some sugary
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Politicising the Budget is bad for public finances
The Chancellor sounds sick and tired of delivering budgets, and the rest of the country is sick of hearing them. Delivering his fourth budget in 12 months, the Chancellor’s latest changes put him at
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In Praise of David Cameron (& Co): A Libertarian Fatwa
Not long ago, I wrote something nasty about Margaret Thatcher for the Libertarian Alliance. Yet even I will concede that in order to be so cruel about the old cow one must inevitably come
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Immigration Needn’t be a Side-Splitting Issue for the Smug Left
The Labour party is currently going through a substantive re-evaluation of what it stands for, with clashes between Jeremy Corbyn supporters and Blairites increasingly prevalent. However in order to fix Labour’s reputation in areas
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Who’s Who in the Race to Replace Cameron?
On Monday, Texas Senator Ted Cruz fired the starting pistol on the Republican Party Presidential Primary race for 2016 by announcing his full candidacy for the nomination. Cruz is the first candidate to announce
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The Budget: It’s morning again in Britain
In 1984, during Ronald Reagan’s reelect, he ran a campaign ad proclaiming, “It’s Morning Again in America”. This masterful piece of political campaigning carried a strong message of all that President Reagan had achieved
Read More »Tory Rebranding: Party Games or Party Names?
Robert Tyler considers the pros and cons of re-naming the Conservative Party This week, Robert Halfon, the Conservative MP for Harlow, said that the Conservative Party should be renamed the “Workers Party”, and that
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This Autumn Statement should be the last of its kind
The budget process has become an archaic political ritual. It does not lead to better policy making – it creates instability and results in worse public policy. The Autumn Statement should be abolished and replaced by
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