Funding the Future

Will Trump go for Scotland next?

In the world we now live in, the crazy is possible and I'm suggesting that we need to prepare for it.

What would Reform do about potholes?

Managing potholes is a core, unglamourous and unthanked task of government. Reform only knows about gesture politics. Until anyone believes Reform can manage potholes they shouldn’t support them.

The Bank of England is crashing the UK economy

The Bank of England is crashing the UK economy. And apparently, our politicians want to do nothing about that. We really are living in an economy that is out of control.

Are we all Trumped?

Trump is revealing that he has the type of imperialist plans for geographic expansion of the USA that we thought had departed Western thinking long ago, and such desires have never ended well.

Labour is going for the wrong sort of growth

Labour has based its strategy on promoting private sector growth without showing any understanding that some of that growth might be harmful to the well-being of the people of the UK, and might even lead to the economy taking a nose-dive.

14 questions Keir Starmer needs to answer about growth

The only goal that we really know that our Labour government has is growth, but no-one really knows why that is, and they have never explained. So, I’ve set out 14 questions they need to answer to explain just what it is that they think growth will do for us.

Keir Starmer’s has to make things work in 2025

It’s back to work day for most in the UK, Keir Starmer included. If he any sense he’d have one priority for 2025, which is making the UK government work again.

We need to welcome the power of the state

It’s fashionable to lay the blame for all that is wrong in our economy on the state. But that’s a mistake. The state is only failing because it is being run by politicians who have set out to undermine it. We need a properly functioning state, and have been denied it for too long.

Can Wes Streeting think?

Wes Streeting has made clear that no action on social care will be taken during this parliament by setting up a commission to report on the issue by 2028, when it will be too late to do anything about it. Is that because he just hasn’t got the ability to think about issues this big?

Energy price rises are the government’s fault

The UK has the highest domestic energy prices in Europe, and it’s all down to poor regulation, political dogma and the fact we haven’t got nationalised energy companies.