It will be headline-grabbing, but will it make a difference? March 6, 2024 Cost, cost, cost: that will be the word of the day today. A tax cut will “cost” £5bn; a freeze will “cost” another £15bn. “Can Jeremy Hunt make the sums add up?” commentators will squeal. All of it is absurd, and not just because a tax cut doesn’t “cost” a thing: it simply means less [...]
Tax cuts don’t ‘cost’ a thing – it’s not the Treasury’s money to begin with February 28, 2024 Tax cuts leave more money with the people that earned it and the Treasury has no God-given right to keep it
Build baby build: Bakerloo Line extension vital to connect south London February 21, 2024 The geology of South London once made building tunnels there more expensive. That’s no longer an excuse. It’s time to correct a historical injustice.
Jeremy Hunt and Rishi Sunak’s uphill task just got a bit steeper February 15, 2024 Rates will come down - probably in May, maybe in June - but they will take time to filter through to the wider economy. With an election looming, can the Tories expect anything to turn up?
The Notebook: Short selling has little sympathy outside City bubble February 13, 2024 Why short selling spooks 'the normals', an end to the celebrity sports industrial complex and a fine London read
Meet the entrepreneur on a mission to give women more control of their money – and make a difference December 13, 2023 Female Invest is on a mission to help women reach financial independence. Anna-Sophie Hartvigsen says it's about more than just money.
Weekend Escape: Broadstairs’ Belvidere Place a perfect home from home on the Kentish Riviera July 23, 2021 It is fair to say that Kent has experienced something of a rebrand over the past decade or so. Londoners discovered Whitstable – no, you probably can’t get a table at The Sportsman for lunch – and just about colonised poor Margate. Round the coast, Deal and Folkestone are increasingly being eyed by Zone 2ers [...]
Back to school with confidence: Ensuring schools are safe for returning students March 6, 2021 With the arrival of a safe and effective vaccine, the UK Government has started to look towards the reopening of society after lockdown. In England, the Government is prioritising the full reopening of schools as a first step, with primary, secondary and college students going back to school the week of March 8. Schools have [...]
Politicians must tread carefully on M&A intervention February 20, 2017 It is common in business and politics today to talk about "signals". Brexit is either a signal of our desire to cut ourselves off from the world, or a sign that we’re set to become a kind of expansionist high-seas merchant. From immigration to Donald Trump, foreign policy to international aid, perceptions are increasingly being [...]
Sadiq Khan’s successful pro-business campaign is heartening for us all – but the work is just beginning May 9, 2016 It is fair to say that relations between the Labour Party and business are in a slightly odd place at the minute. The nervousness is perhaps understandable, considering that both the leader and shadow chancellor of the party continue to describe themselves as socialists. In these interesting times – and to be fair to those [...]