I have written for ConservativeHome today on the problem with capitalism: I listened to Comrade Milliband’s tedious historical revisionism with interest: apparently New Old Labour are to become the party of enterprise and small business in order that wealth can be created and redistributed. With Comrade Milliband’s remarks following so closely […]
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CentreRight: Will the spending review be bold enough?
Over at CentreRight, I ask “Will the spending review be bold enough?” This is a follow up to Professor Kevin Dowd’s article for The Cobden Centre: The UK is Broke. Hazlitt’s remark in Economics in One Lesson seemed an appropriate introduction: Today is already the tomorrow which the bad economist yesterday urged us […]
Read MoreCentreRight: A political economy popquiz
On Conservative Home’s CentreRight, I have published a political economy popquiz. The article gives three charts and three related questions: State spending as a proportion of the economy since 1900. Consumer prices since 1750. Debt projections for the western world. I’ll publish some related thinking next week.
Read MoreCentreRight: Labour’s legacy is a choice between unpleasant cuts in public spending, a sovereign debt crisis or currency debasement
ConservativeHome have kindly invited me to contribute to CentreRight. In my first article, I debunk potential reasons for Labour’s self-righteous indignation: Since my arrival in Parliament, the Chamber has been characterised by a torrent of self-righteous indignation from Labour and their thoroughgoing lack of remorse about the state of the […]
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