The 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
The 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 […]