Don’t like the OBR? Then stop borrowing so much Opinion The left and the right have found a common enemy in the OBR, but if governments don’t like having their headroom wiped out by forecasts they should try running a surplus, says Tom Harwood Voices on the left and the right have found an unlikely common enemy in recent weeks: the much maligned Office for [...]
Britain is a country becoming hostile to talent, enterprise and wealth Opinion Britain’s brain drain was hiding in plain sight, now new emigration data proves it. We have engineered an economy where high earners are taxed punitively while low earners are propped up, says Tom Harwood We saw it all around us. Friends moving abroad. Colleagues relocating. Dubai, Australia, America calling. This modern phenomenon was there for [...]
Stay with me here… how about a pensions QUADRUPLE lock? Opinion Tom Harwood presents a pensions policy that is both money saving and popular: promise that Pensions will NEVER go down in cash terms; Pensions will NEVER go down in real terms; Pensions will RISE every year; and 4. Pensions will GO UP in line with CPI inflation This week Rachel Reeves rolled the pitch of [...]
The nuclear stupidity of insisting reactors provide ‘social value’ October 23, 2025 The government is demanding that companies who want to build small modular reactors must ensure 50 per cent of workers are women and provide jobs for refugees rather than, you know, build a nuclear reactor, says Tom Harwood Let me take you back in time to a quite different world. Barack Obama is President of [...]
