The World Cup could not have come at a better time for the Prime Minister, with football pushing the open warfare on planning and housing...

This relatively short book gallops through the history of the British fiscal state, taking the reader from the first Act of Union in 1707...

The new Prime Minister and Chancellor are busy working on their Autumn Statement to balance the books. The usual libertarian think tanks...

Chancellor’s book could not be better timed as we start to see the unravelling of the low-interest rate environment that has dominated...

The German political economist Wolfgang Streeck is probably not at the top of the reading list for Conservative Ministers or advisors,...

The sacking of Kwasi Kwarteng and the appointment of Jeremy Hunt as Chancellor marks the end of ‘Trussonomics’ and the return of...

There has been a lot written in the past week about the Chancellor’s Mini-Budget. Most of this has focused on the individual decisions,...

The Conservatives are in the media once again for hinting that the UK's productivity slowdown is down to idle workers. Is this true?

Inflation is rising, causing a cost of living crisis, but why is UK business being left off the hook?

A few weeks ago the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, gave the annual Mais Lecture. Rishi’s lecture was somewhat overlooked...

Surfing the Wave: The “New Political Capitalists” Where to begin? It is undeniably the case that after decades of consensus that we...

During the First World War, French General Charles Mangin quipped “[w]hatever you do, you a lose a lot of men.” The same adage could be...

The Conservatives and Labour are both only talking about the state but they are ignoring the key driver of our economy, business.

A review of Dietrich Vollrath's Fully Grown - Why a Stagnant Economy Is a Sign of Success

Rishi Sunak's Budget has shown the Conservatives are running out of options on economic reform.

Following the Spending Review we have had predictable coverage in the media about the record levels of debt and the deficit that has been...

Can present day Conservatives learn from Hegel's philosophy to develop their One Nation agenda?

A book review of Paul Collier and John Kay's latest work "Greed is Dead"

Eyes are once again turning away from the economy back to the still unresolved health emergency as a second wave of COVID begins ripples...

On the 16th August 1902, The Spectator, discussed in its “Topics of the Day” a new political slogan. “At the present time, and perhaps it...