Britain’s big government is a winning hand in incentivising green technology March 30, 2023 The US might have the financial heft, but Britain benefits from a centralised government with the ability to make sweeping decisions to incentivise renewable technology across the country, writes Will Cooling.
In London, we have no other option but to break up the Metropolitan Police March 23, 2023 The Metropolitan Police has had years to make things right - but it hasn't done it. It's time we admit we should reform it for good - and the best way is to break it up, writes Will Cooling
The DUP must decide what Brexit they want – or Northern Ireland will be stuck March 2, 2023 The DUP can't have it all - and it's good that Rishi Sunak's deal for Northern Ireland doesn't indulge the unionists' wildest fantasies on a hardline Brexit, writes Will Cooling
The Conservative morality of Kate Forbes will never lead Sturgeon’s party February 23, 2023 People who oppose Kate Forbes' leadership are not intolerant, just realistic. A social conservative can't lead a socially liberal party, in the same way a pro-European can't lead Eurosceptics, writes Will Cooling
Sturgeon’s resignation is an admission she would never lead an independent Scotland February 16, 2023 Nicola Sturgeon, like many SNP politicians before her, succumbed to fundamentalism when it came to Scottish independence. This marked her end as first minister, writes Will Cooling
Truss didn’t win the argument, she’s rewriting history to claw her way back February 7, 2023 Liz Truss has defended her go-for-growth tax cuts in her mini-budget last year, but the ideological clothing is a farcical excuse to keep her relevancy in Westminster, writes Will Cooling
Sunak needs to stop fighting over tax and spend and overhaul the system February 2, 2023 The calls for tax cuts are ceaseless, even in the face of evidence they won’t help us to growth, Rishi Sunak needs to stop arguing over whether or not we can afford them, and start stripping back taxation as a whole, writes Will Cooling
WWE failed to wrestle back control and delivered a warning in dual class shares January 19, 2023 Professional wrestling can teach us a lesson or two about business. McMahon's return as WWE's executive chairman shows the inevitable pitfalls of dual class shares, writes Will Cooling
Brexit: The govt must please both the Europeans and the DUP to solve the stalemate in Northern Ireland January 6, 2023 There aren’t many causes for optimism in British politics right now. Yet one that seems to be getting people increasingly excited is the possibility that Britain and the EU are close to agreeing a deal on the Northern Ireland Protocol. British ministerial sources are reporting good progress is being made in the talks, and even [...]
Sometimes, size matters: what smaller cities can learn from London’s ever-expanding infrastructure December 22, 2022 I’m not saying news travels slowly up North, but it took me until this week to finally travel on The Elizabeth Line. The train was noticeably cleaner and nicer than the older trains that I had been on for the first part of my journey, and the sheer breadth of stations that the line serves [...]
