Subsidies create distortions. They alter the natural balance of supply, demand and fair competition in the marketplace. The Government’s Net Zero target has resulted in millions of pounds of taxpayer ...

Sven Beckert, a Harvard professor, has written a very long history of capitalism. As its subtitle suggests, ‘Capitalism: A Global History’ covers all of the inhabited world and spans a millennium, ...

Last week, the Government announced the results of Allocation Round 7 (AR7) – record-breaking subsidies for renewable energy ...

The uncomfortable truth is that no inflation target is fiscally neutral any longer. A rigid commitment to 2% risks prolonged tight policy, weaker nominal growth and repeated damage to the tax base. A ...

Against that backdrop, the white paper feels like a quiet departure from the Government’s faux tough‑guy campaigning ...

Generation Z is as perplexing as it is irritating.

That ‘largely’ there is carrying a lot of weight. Too much – so much weight as to not, in fact, be true. Under the yoke of global neoliberalism those poor countries that take part in it have been ...

Rachel Reeves pulled out of an event at the London School of Economics yesterday at the last minute to join Keir Starmer in ...

Forget all the cloak-and-dagger machinations of the past week: the deception and spying, the sneaking and snitching. Both ...

Celebrity activists believe political judgment must come as naturally to them as performance – they're wrong The silence of ...

Trump sees the world as a succession of zero-sum games, underpinned by a fundamental binary of the strong and the weak. In ...

From social mobility to the automobile market itself, self-driving cars will change everything The upcoming London trials ...