It’s time to go back to basics and go about fixing our deficit before more tax cuts October 26, 2022 As inflation pushes prices further and further up, food has been getting more expensive for some time. But, as the cliche goes, there was never such a thing as a free lunch.
Letters: Not another carte blanche October 26, 2022 [Re: A blank cheque for two years of capped energy prices was a perverse kind of plan, yesterday] In response to Jonathan Maxwell’s piece yesterday, I would not call the plan to cap energy prices “perverse”, I would say it was about giving people the ability to plan, to know what was going to [...]
Backing the central bank pivot is a risky bet October 25, 2022 It is easy to criticise central banks for heaping pain on households and businesses. But, this is exactly what they are supposed to do under current economic conditions. Inflation in the UK, US and eurozone has hit 10.1 per cent, 8.2 per cent and 9.9 per cent respectively, all historic highs. The Bank of England [...]
Explainer-in-brief: The latest BBC impartiality row October 25, 2022 “Am I allowed to be this gleeful? Well, I am” were the perhaps unfortunate words of BBC presenter Martine Croxall on Sunday night. She made the remark while reviewing how the papers covered Boris Johnson’s decision to step out of the leadership race. Her comment sparked the latest squabble over the broadcaster’s impartiality, with seasoned [...]
A blank cheque for two years of capped energy bills was a perverse kind of plan October 25, 2022 It was always perverse to ask the taxpayer to write a blank cheque for two years as part of the energy support package and ignore the huge potential gains in increasing our energy efficiency.
Meta will be forced to sell Giphy as the CMA falls for the dangerous myth of ‘big is bad’ October 25, 2022 . Regulators around the world are intent on breaking up the largest tech companies, and now they have a model that works — even if it's dangerously detached from reality.
No, it’s not sci-fi. Robots really could help dig us out of our low productivity spiral October 25, 2022 Earlier this month, a robot named Ai-Da gave evidence to the House of Lords on the future of the creative industries. The members of the Lords Communications and Digital committee were fairly quite stumped. For all its weirdness, this episode proved a point: robots are among us. When thinking of robots, many of us imagine [...]
Explainer-in-brief: A Tory leadership election, all over again October 24, 2022 It’s almost hard to believe it, but here we are again: today marks the beginning of another Tory leadership campaign. This one, however, has very different rules compared to what unfolded over summer.
Boris Johnson can win elections, but he never knew what to do once he did October 24, 2022 It also reduces politics to its bones as a mere transaction, with retaining office the only objective.