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JP Floru

Posts by JP Floru

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

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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.

Comment | By JP Floru | 11 September 2020 at 12:00 pm | 126 comments

J.P.Floru: In defence of tax havens. May’s threat to the British Overseas Territories is un-Conservative.

Do we really want them either to declare independence, or else become benefit claimants, funded by British taxpayers?

Comment | By JP Floru | 8 May 2018 at 3:00 pm | 63 comments

J P Floru: People only moan about the use of Facebook data when it is used by campaigns they dislike

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?

Comment | By JP Floru | 22 March 2018 at 2:00 pm | 117 comments

J.P.Floru: Let’s be Singapore – and prosperous, post-Brexit, beyond our wildest dreams

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.

Comment, Highlights | By JP Floru | 29 January 2018 at 6:20 am | 149 comments

J.P.Floru: How to inoculate your children against socialism

What can parents do? Avoid reading Robin Hood as a bedtime story? I asked around, and came up with a few answers.

Comment, Highlights | By JP Floru | 12 August 2017 at 6:30 am | 99 comments

JP Floru: Zac must respond to the hidden desires of Londoners

Continuing our series on what Goldsmith needs to do to be elected Mayor of London.

Local Government | By JP Floru | 13 January 2016 at 6:15 am | 6 comments

J.P.Floru: Never mind Foreign Office advice. The terrorists must not win. I’m off on holiday to Egypt

Imagine what our reaction would have been if the world had issued anti-travel advice against London after 7/7.

Comment, Highlights | By JP Floru | 6 November 2015 at 7:00 am | 23 comments

JP Floru: TfL’s attack on Uber is a blinkered attack on customers

By all means cut regulation on black cabs. But the cabbies’ union prefers to raise barriers to entry into the market.

Comment | By JP Floru | 30 September 2015 at 2:27 pm | 24 comments

JP Floru: Rent controls have never worked, ever

Labour will create an acute, artificial shortage of rental accommodation and a privileged class of subsidised tenants.

Comment | By JP Floru | 27 April 2015 at 11:00 am | 100 comments

J.P.Floru: Want to win the election? Scrap Air Passenger Duty

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.

Comment, Highlights | By JP Floru | 6 April 2015 at 6:30 am | 33 comments

JP Floru: Jihadists should be stripped of their British citizenship

As a naturalised Brit, it horrifies me that some of my fellow citizens wish to destroy our freedoms.

Comment, Highlights | By JP Floru | 23 August 2014 at 6:30 am | 127 comments

JP Floru: Boris is the new Boris – He will be one of our truly great Prime Ministers

Do you smell the excitement and hope in the air?

Comment | By JP Floru | 7 August 2014 at 4:00 pm | 75 comments

J P Floru: Banmania – and how to ban it

Too often we forget that banning something means that someone else’s freedom is going out of the window.

Comment | By JP Floru | 4 October 2013 at 1:52 pm | 30 comments

JP Floru: Frack, baby, frack! Away with the statism that stops drilling and prosperity

JP Floru is a Westminster Councillor, Senior Research Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute and writer of Heavens on Earth… Read more »

Uncategorized | By JP Floru | 4 June 2013 at 7:16 am

Queues at the state Post Offices and the Stockholm Syndrome

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 »

Uncategorized | By JP Floru | 16 May 2013 at 3:32 pm

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