Industrial policy is back, but watch out for the bad ideas that come with it

The wrong kind of industrial policy – one that acts against economic diversity – undermines democracy as well as prosperity.

The artificial stupidity of our politics is no match for the rise of artificial intelligence

Just as the early steam engines made the transition from very basic tasks like pumping water out of mines… computers are about to breakthrough into new applications

Tony Baldry MP on food banks: “We need to tackle the root causes of food poverty.”

A comprehensive speech on food banks, food, poverty, church work, demand, benefits & self and community help in full.

Never mind the excuses: Here’s the real reason why wages are falling

Pensions transmit the economic under-performance of the past to the wage packets of the present.

Heresy of the week: Britain is doomed without manufacturing

How do we get manufacturing back again? Not through protectionism, but by being the best – and that starts with world-class vocational training.

Schooled by the evidence: the pet educational theories of the left (and right)

Ironically, it is Michael Gove who is condemned as the ideologue. He is in fact the most anti-ideological of Education Secretaries.

Lord Flight: Looking back at the Autumn Statement

The extent to which EU requirements and directives are now actively damaging our economy and frustrating our ability to put things right is noteworthy.

The British economy: Where did it all go right?

There are lessons in the recovery for both Left and Right.

This, just in from Japan: Printing colossal amounts of money does not inspire economic confidence

Using loose monetary policy to revive a moribund economy is a bit like getting your guests drunk at a party – no one joins in unless other people are joining in

Why is Labour still on course to win the next election?

While it took the Tories ten years and four leaders to recover, Labour have done it in half a parliament and with the wrong brother.

Heresy of the week: The conservative case for a citizen’s income

If the economy no longer provides ordinary working people with the hope of improved living standards, then the mainstream majority will look to the state instead

It was a supply shock, not a lack of demand, that crippled the British economy

If dropping demand really had been the main driver of such a serious disruption of growth, then Japanese-style deflation should have been a problem too.

What if the rules of Monopoly reflected the realities of modern capitalism?

Money can always be created at a faster pace than real estate

Ed Holmes: How to stop the long-term unemployed from falling out of the labour market

Smaller and specialist providers should be funded upfront

America and Britain: Socially immobile because we are geographically immobile

To the extent that people are moving at all, it tends to be away from higher wage areas – the reverse of the historical pattern