No political party in the UK can realistically solve the housing crisis on August 14, 2017The Prime Minister’s former chief of staff is quite right. In an interview today, Nick Timothy identifies one of the problems with the Conservative election run: “It was a reassurance and continuity campaign rather than a change campaign and on reflection I think that was wrong.” Looking back, we can see that Theresa May should […]
Basic income is the latest bad political idea that refuses to die on January 9, 2017The zombie policy of the universal basic income is the first to rise from the grave of well-intentioned impractical ideas in 2017. Labour-controlled Glasgow city council is the latest to announce that it intends to investigate a pilot scheme. There is a reason why the basic income is the eternal news story. Someone, somewhere, is […]