Not too hot, not too cold: the Mayor only intervenes when the temperature, and the topic, are just right.
The Deputy Prime Minister is incapable of deciding whether he trusts headteachers or wants to dictate to them.
Clegg has no desire to become infamous as the man who blocked a cut to everyone’s energy bills.
“The Liberal Democrats have shown they do not believe in press freedom. We Conservatives are the party of freedom.”
JP Floru is a Westminster Councillor, Senior Research Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute and writer of Heavens on Earth: How to Create Mass Prosperity. Follow JP on Twitter. The service customers obtain from state-run post offices is often abysmal – a relic of how state services were run in the 1970s. Privatising the state post offices is […]
J P Floru is a Westminster councillor and Head of Programmes at the Adam Smith Institute. Follow J P on Twitter. “They call it austerity. I call it balancing the budget”, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at a book launch a few days ago. The principle of living within one’s means is familiar to many […]
By JP Floru. Lord Heseltine proposes to shift £49 billion from national to local government to encourage investment and growth. His report No Stones Unturned is a classic tale of “government knows best”: of politicians taking economic decisions about which they know little; and of a belief that local politicians are somehow better suited at this than national ones. […]
With the election of Francois Hollande Keynesian folly is back to the fore. Down here, socialists continue to hoodwink the long-suffering population into believing that the government’s spending cuts cause the continuation of the economic crisis. BBC journalists repeat it as if it is mere fact. Those profiting from state profligacy in Greece shout it […]
The idea that government are competent enough to decide who deserves to be well-paid, and who doesn’t, is a prime example of statist hubris. It should be condemned to the dustbin of claptrap ideas, where it belongs. Sweeping, generalising laws are inept to cope with the millions of decisions involved in determining pay. Believing that […]
JP Floru is Head of Programmes at the Adam Smith Institute. State action is usually less efficient than private action. To libertarians the police’s ineptitude in dealing with the riots did not come as a surprise. We saw how freely organised individuals – notwithstanding their limited brain power – got the better of the multibillion […]
By JP Floru It's high noon for those who want biometric data of innocents removed from police databases. This morning the Protection of Freedom Bill Committee will meet for the line by line discussion of the Freedom Bill. The Freedom Bill is to undo the abolition of a raft of civil liberties by the last Labour […]
By JP Floru At a dinner in London two weeks ago, Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Donald Tsang unwittingly rubbed the Coalition Government’s inadequate tax policies in fellow attendant Vince Cable’s face (or, more precisely, he would have done so, if Vince hadn’t been late). Tsang happily elaborated on the HK $6,000 cheque the Hong Kong government […]