Pragmatist

The cost of the Brexit referendum decision has finally begun to erode household confidence , even though Brexit hasn't even actually ...

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...

This week saw the publication of two reports that highlight the woeful set of priorities that govern the activities of the Public Account...

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

A Conservatory Dream Last night we were treated to the story of a family who can now achieve their dream of building a conservatory , ...

For every old saying there's an opposite. Today's conflict lies in the adage that "those who don't know history are dest...

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

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

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...

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...

The Economist article on The Question of Extractive Elites certainly resonated with me last week, as it did with those involved in the s...

I'm hopeful that the UK government's personal tax statement will end the cynical political ploy of leveraging middle class ig...

Scrapping national public sector pay rates is great news at last for regional growth.  As mentioned previously , government spending is ...

The UK's Child Benefit spending programme is too broad. It was conceived amidst the devastation of 1945 - a far cry from where we ar...

For today's post, I'm again drawn to the Red Book and the 'problem' of social housing. Remember , the game here is n...