The Government is Quietly Nationalising Childcare
In its 2024 manifesto, the Labour Party pledged to add 3,000 new nurseries, attached to existing primary schools.
Oxfam’s latest idea is wondrously idiotic
The charity called on the UK to work with other governments to oppose “extreme inequality”, with private wealth growing eight times faster than the net wealth of governments between 1995 and 2023.
Tapping the underground treasure
There is a treasure under out feet which, if tapped, could make most of the country richer and less dependent on imported resources.
Owning the fossil fuel companies by boosting fossil fuel profits
That’ll larn ‘em, eh? Pass a law which increases the profits of the fossil fuel companies in order to punish the fossil fuel companies for causing climate change.
Creating a property-owning democracy
Margaret Thatcher wanted Britain to become a property-owning democracy, and she succeeded to an extent no-one thought possible when she took office in 1979.
Close the universities - well, most of them at least
The price of graduates has fallen. To, it appears, less than zero. Or, to be slightly more accurate, to less than the minimum wage that the law, in its majesty, insists any labour must be paid.
Reform’s Bank of England Confusion
In a letter to Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice recently argued that the Bank should stop paying interest on reserves – i.e. the money that financial institutions have parked on the Bank’s balance sheet.
Climate change has come to this, has it - a demand for censorship?
False claims obstructing climate action, say researchers, amid calls for climate lies to be criminalised
A bounty for intercepting illegal Cross-Channel boats
Measures to reduce the number of illegal immigrants coming across the Channel in small boats have so far failed to make a significant impact.