PMQs: Keir Starmer goes for our hearts – through the NHS January 18, 2023 As nurses go on strike in England, Keir Starmer has used ambulance wait times as an emotional bit of rhetoric to drag Rishi Sunak's attempt to be a "good manager" of Britain, writes Sascha O'Sullivan
Lessons from the Met Police: We should give power to those who least want it January 18, 2023 What can we learn from the failures of the Met? That in politics as well as in the police, we need people who do it for the calling, not for the thirst for power, writes Josh Williams
Big Business needs to check its screen time and stop throwing money at trying to go viral January 18, 2023 A viral TikTok about Negroni Sbagliatos pushed up Lidl's prosecco sales, but the truly valuable viral videos are luck of the draw.
A miniscule bit of growth last November is unlikely to save us from a recession this year January 18, 2023 Whichever way you cut it, the UK is on the brink of a recession. A small boost in growth at the end of last year won't alleviate the cost-of-living crisis and inflation, writes Paul Ormerod
Explainer-in-brief: The gender reform fight between Westminster and Holyrood January 17, 2023 Did you think you would get a month without the culture wars? Think again. This week, Holyrood and Westminster went head to head over Scotland’s gender recognition legislation. The Scottish parliament voted in favour of a bill that would lower the age at which individuals can change gender to sixteen. It would also make it [...]
To withstand future recessions, the UK needs radical supply side reform January 17, 2023 When academics write essays, they begin with an abstract that captures the causes, effects and outcomes of the economic policy change they are examining. Boosting the supply side has a pretty simple argument. Either increasing the volume or productivity of resources used to produce things makes a country richer. That’s it. Let’s take a look [...]
Britain’s forty-something-year-olds are in the sweet spot of working adults January 17, 2023 As young workers struggle with low pay and high rent, and over-50s jump out of the workforce en masse, those in the sweet spot of work in the UK seem to be those in their forties, writes Elena Siniscalco
We need a Swedish-style civic duty to stop division being baked into our politics for good January 17, 2023 Brexit, immigration, the cost-of-living crisis. All of these are issues which have divided the British public, now we need to find a way to bring people together.
All aboard another year of fighting over low-traffic neighbourhoods and e-bikes January 17, 2023 Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and e-scooters will impact how we get around in London - and with transport strikes still making the headlines, it's going to be a rather interesting year, writes Claire Harding
Explainer-in-brief: January, another month when you can’t afford to buy a home January 16, 2023 Over the weekend, I received an innocuous looking email. “Dear Elena,” wrote a reader, ” I hope you don’t mind me emailing you. Is there any hope for young people buying their own house?” While I can’t possibly comment on his own individual circumstances, today was not good news: house prices have jumped up again [...]