
JP Floru: The call for ‘Covid Marshals’ shows that ministers are losing their grip on the nation
That Boris Johnson feels the need to mobilise civilian enforcers is clear evidence that a second harsh lockdown does not command popular support.
JP Floru is a Senior Research Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute and the author of What the Immigrant Saw and Heavens on Earth: How to Create Mass Prosperity
Follow @That Boris Johnson feels the need to mobilise civilian enforcers is clear evidence that a second harsh lockdown does not command popular support.
Do we really want them either to declare independence, or else become benefit claimants, funded by British taxpayers?
If Hillary and Remain had won, using the same methods, would anyone at the Guardian or the BBC have cared a bean about Cambridge Analytica’s behaviour?
Basically, we need to undercut the world. We can do so if we slash red tape and tax. Within a very short period there would be a pronounced Laffer Effect.
What can parents do? Avoid reading Robin Hood as a bedtime story? I asked around, and came up with a few answers.
Continuing our series on what Goldsmith needs to do to be elected Mayor of London.
Imagine what our reaction would have been if the world had issued anti-travel advice against London after 7/7.
By all means cut regulation on black cabs. But the cabbies’ union prefers to raise barriers to entry into the market.
Labour will create an acute, artificial shortage of rental accommodation and a privileged class of subsidised tenants.
It does nothing to reduce carbon emissions, increases the cost of living, keeps people in developing countries in poverty, and has a negative effect on the state finances.
As a naturalised Brit, it horrifies me that some of my fellow citizens wish to destroy our freedoms.
Do you smell the excitement and hope in the air?
Too often we forget that banning something means that someone else’s freedom is going out of the window.
JP Floru is a Westminster Councillor, Senior Research Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute and writer of Heavens on Earth… Read more »
JP Floru is a Westminster Councillor, Senior Research Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute and writer of Heavens on Earth: How to Create… Read more »