DEBATE: With Alistair Darling standing down from the House of Lords, is it time to consider term limits for peers?

With Alistair Darling standing down from the House of Lords, is it time to consider term limits for peers? John

July 31, 2020

Forget glitzy vanity projects like HS2, here’s what we could do instead

Until recently, Crossrail was cited as an example of that miraculous phenomenon: a government infrastructure project running on time and

August 28, 2019

The NHS needs reform and automation, not a politically motivated bidding war

It was the worst kept secret in Westminster, but we finally heard over the weekend that the NHS will receive

June 19, 2018

Philip Hammond's self-employment tax hike marred a refreshingly mundane Budget

It took just a couple of hours for the chancellor’s Budget to come under heavy fire. He set out changes to

March 9, 2017

Older people must shoulder their share of government spending cuts

Given general improvements in technology and prosperity, younger generations should, in theory, always be better off than their parents. But with

February 14, 2017

Punish HMRC for arbitrarily bullying the victims of our complex tax code

A good rule of thumb for a system or process: if you sat down and designed it from scratch, would

February 8, 2017

From public sector pensions to social care, the government is scarily ill-prepared for major demographic change

The gap between private and public sector pensions in the UK is the worst in the developed world, according to the

December 13, 2016

Theresa May’s statism is the wrong way to build a more prosperous post-Brexit Britain

Labour has lurched to the hard left and Ukip does not currently seem equipped to capture the significant number of

October 12, 2016

The chancellor's fiscal reset is a golden opportunity to slash living costs through tax cuts and planning reform

Philip Hammond recently said that he may use the Autumn Statement to “reset” fiscal policy. That is a welcome sentiment

September 5, 2016