Money

The budget that the Chancellor delivered yesterday has received a mixed and tribal reaction in the press. The truth is that we are weeks away from a general election and Read more

On Friday, Ed Balls announced the Government’s response to the ‘Salt Review’ into the supply of teachers for pupils with severe and complex learning difficulties. Balls argued, and rightly so, Read more

Most political news is about personality and politics rather than policy.  At the moment that’s particularly true – the big stories of recent weeks have been about Brown’s behaviour, Lord Ashcroft, Read more

A report out today has calculated that the bankers’ bonus tax will raise around £2 billion more than initially thought. While this begs a number of questions (who got the Read more

As our report More Fees Please? this week recommended, university fees need to rise if we are to protect the quality of the student experience in the future.  Anyone who Read more

I do find it depressing to continually read headlines basically hinting that Tories don’t care about the environment. It’s simply not true. It is getting boring to regularly write on Read more

One of the aims of this website, when it was first created, was to be a forum to find conservative methods to reach progressive ends. Taxes should be cut from Read more

Gordon Brown’s attempt to introduce a Tobin tax (yet again – I’m sure he’s floated the idea a few times before) has fallen flat once again.  I particularly enjoyed the Russian Read more

Caitlin Moran’s article in this morning’s Times is (as always) hilarious but there’s an underlying suggestion in there that I think could be a great step forward in openness of Read more

No, David, this isn’t going to be yet another of my doom and gloom, we’re all bankrupt posts… Last week Gordon Brown announced a variety of policies in his conference Read more