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Smart Data at Open Banking Expo
Smart Data is a new technology that will soon help all of us switch & find better deals for our mortgages, pensions, energy suppliers and lots else more cheaply, quickly & easily than today. Plus it ought to make Government…
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Throw these 2 ugly sisters out of the taxman’s ball
As the dust of party conferences settles and journalists try to read the runes of what they mean for the coming political year, two things are already clear. The first is that Andy Burnham’s conference speech was a masterclass in…
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Making Britain Into Europe’s Tiger Economy
A generation ago, when Asia’s leading tiger economies were places like South Korea or Singapore, India was the region’s teenage disappointment. Everyone agreed it had huge potential but it seemed stuck in life’s slow lane. The ‘Hindu rate of growth’…
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How can we cut corruption in UK public life?
John contributed to an Institute for Government (IfG) expert panel discussing how to deal with UK corruption, political donations, and freebies: The event was chaired by Vicky Elliott, Director of the IfG Academy. You can watch the discussion here
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Who wants to break up the UK?
The slow-burn-but-inevitable result of Blair’s botched devolution reforms. Britain’s enemies will be overjoyed…….
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Why Is There No MP for the Falklands?
This week saw a south-Atlantic gale of outrage after Argentina’s chainsaw-wielding President Javier Milei repeated his country’s entirely bogus claim to the Falkland Islands, with President Donald Trump twisting the knife by saying the USA’s view of the issue was…
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How to unblock Britain’s economic arteries
Between all the usual August silly-season news stories about how the Prime Minister makes tea (milk first, apparently) or his go-to Greggs pie (it’s the sausage, bean and cheese melt, since you asked) was something altogether more serious: where the…
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Strong walls, but a weaker State – smaller government is where the UK should head
This article by Ffinian Elliott first appeared in Conservative Home When one visits Washington D.C., the buildings that symbolise the kind of democracy fitting of a modern republic have a common theme. Their buildings are much like castles, fortified to…
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As National Debt tops £3trillion, it’s time for Burnham to be honest about Britain’s finances
The problem for bright-eyed and bushy-tailed new prime ministers who take over part-way through a Parliament is they start with a king-sized chip on their shoulders. They walk through Downing Street’s door knowing they aren’t the one who won the…
