Pragmatist

The UK has an army of 4.6 million self-employed people, according to the Office of National Statistics - the largest it's been sinc...

So, two weeks have passed since the revelations of the latest (known) public sector IT disaster , and related wasted expenditure. But I...

In his excellent book Thinking, Fast and Slow , Daniel Kahneman explains that governments tend to reward bidders who over-estimate the ut...

That's the conclusion I reach from reading Lord Young's report on Growing Micro Businesses . The report makes it clear that gov...

My appetite whetted by this week's local electoral melodrama, I've been searching for some Class A political journalism to feed m...

Whether you loved or loathed her, you have to be impressed that 23 years after she was hunted out of office Margaret Thatcher's funer...

The Tory spin machine was in overdrive today, with the Chancellor linking a fatal house fire to excessive social welfare payments, while...

Having recently made the same point , I'm encouraged to see the London School of Economics setting out in detail some of the ways in...

In "India Grows at Night" the writer and commentator Gurcharan Das shares his insights into how India's growing, pragmatic...

Whatever you think about taxes, we have to put an end to wasteful public spending . This is not about making 'cuts'. There are no...

This decade is not going well for Britain’s institutions. The 2010 election did not magically restore our faith in a scandal-ridden Parli...

It never stops As the moral panic over taxing foreign companies continues, MPs and other politicians must be increasingly relieved no...

The Inland Revenue is busy cleaning up part of Gordon Brown's poisonous legacy by clawing back Child Benefit payments made to house...

MPs and the media have a responsibility to put the corporation tax issue into proper perspective. The outrage is not how 'little...

Two things seem to be choking the flow of money to people and small businesses in the UK: broken regulation and perverse incentives. ...

While it's fun picking over the bones of old financial scams and scandals, it's not really getting us anywhere, is it? After fou...

I was at Latitude , the festival, on the weekend. Had a great time, and settled in on Sunday night to watch Ben Howard and then Paul Wel...

There's a lot of concern about how to grow the UK economy. Some have pointed to banks and the public sector as ' the enemies of g...