We should be able to choose whether we support the BBC with our wallets – the economic case for licence fees has evaporated.
Unfortunately, the crisis we face will lead to decisions having to be made which will be more difficult than those taken in 2010.
If it proves a temporary blowout rather than permanent, accumulated debt levels being modestly higher looks manageable.
Allowing developers to negotiate at a very local level to provide compensation directly to the community would factor in beauty, practicality and social costs.
The anti-business, anti-private property trajectory is doing it just as much damage – as exemplified in the field of housing and rent.
If anti-private landlord agendas are allowed to shape Government policy, things will only get worse for them and for their tenants alike.
The basic principles of limited government, economic and civil liberties, freedom and equality under the law are almost entirely absent from her programme.
The Education Secretary sets little stock by values which differ from her own, and elevates economic productivity as the only measure of personal decisions.
Prof. Philip Booth is Editorial and Programme Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs. When it comes to the debate on tax avoidance, the coalition seems to struggle in two respects. The first problem is that the government seems unable to articulate the idea that the main contribution of businesses to welfare is not the taxes they […]
Philip Booth is Editorial and Programme Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs and Professor of Insurance and Risk Management at Cass Business School. Nigel Lawson once said that the NHS is the closest thing the English have to a religion. Of course, we also have the established church. And, indeed, the established church seems to see […]
Philip Booth is Editorial and Programme Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs and Professor of Insurance and Risk Management at Cass Business School. A thriving economy needs saving and capital investment. Capital investment is inherently risky because it involves making a judgment about returns from entrepreneurial ventures when our knowledge about the future is always limited. […]
Philip Booth is Editorial and Programme Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs and Professor of Insurance and Risk Management at Cass Business School. If the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) were to issue a press release this holiday period, which of the following do you think would be the most likely headline? CPAG claims […]
Philip Booth is Editorial and Programme Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs and Professor of Insurance and Risk Management at Cass Business School. Those attacking companies not paying corporation tax have opened up a new line of argument. Specifically, members of the House of Commons’ Public Accounts Committee have argued that because companies benefit […]
Just as governments of the left develop institutions designed to embed their reforms and make them difficult to reverse, so should the right.