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Osborne’s Economy Speech: Analysis
Daniel Pryor provides comprehensive analysis of the Chancellor’s New Year economy speech. Watching George Osborne’s speech this morning, I felt reasonably proud to be a Conservative. He convincingly argued that we must continue to
Read More »Why young people? And Why now?
There are better alternatives to the Conservatives’ JSA proposals Job-Seekers’ Allowance is the ultimate scapegoat for most people, among not only the right of the political spectrum, but commonly among the centre and even
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The Wrong Type of News?
James Evans asks which news stories should be afforded the most attention. Britons are famous for enjoying a good grumble. This particular predilection was well-parodied back in the nineteenth century by Gilbert and Sullivan
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Andy Murray and the ‘Possible’ Dream
James Evans calls for a realistic appraisal of our own abilities in the context of Andy Murray’s Wimbledon triumph. Like most British sports fans, I am on a euphoric high after an extraordinary weekend.
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Migration: Trickle or Tide?
By Neil Kennard Article 45 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union: Freedom of movement for workers shall be secured within the Union. Such freedom of movement shall entail the
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2014: A Year of Mass Immigration in the UK
There’s currently an e-petition which aims to stop mass immigration from Bulgaria and Romania in 2014. This will be a year when EU restrictions on immigration become more relaxed. In 2014 EU restrictions are
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Employment Woes: Rage Against the Minimum Wage
Allrik Birch, The minimum wage is terrible. Aside from the Iraq war (which is still contentious), it is possibly the single worst thing Blair did whilst in office. Minimum wage, like minimum prices
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Free Trade, as bad as immigration
Imagine a factory pumping out widgets to be bought by British consumers. Now imagine that of all the workers, none of them are British. Scandalous, right? These immigrants have taken the jobs of
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If Osborne is to meet his fiscal targets, he needs to get clever over cuts.
Donna Edmunds, The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) have predicted that “there is a better than 50-50 chance that the government will borrow more this year than it did last year.” The cause
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