In its place, I’ll be reading ‘The Impossible Bomb’, by Gareth Williams, about the British scientists who made the Manhattan Project possible, but were written out of history by the Americans – and ...

The basic rate of income tax should be cut from 20% to 18%, costing around £16.5bn, allowing someone earning £40,000 to keep ...

On that his judgment may well be right. Keir Starmer’s manifesto had no plan for welfare reform, so Labour MPs felt they had ...

Burnham has already suggested that he lacks the introspection and creativity to go about changing this. His diagnosis is ...

John Healey is Chancellor – he can't tax his way out of this mess. Spending is the real problem with the public finances ...

When the new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, says he wants to ‘undo Thatcher’s economic legacy’, is that the Britain he wants ...

A big opportunity for new land for housing in London is strategic industrial locations (SIL). There’s 2,293 hectares of SIL ...

Apps like YouTube are taking up a greater share of viewers’ time and are now successfully competing with the likes of Netflix ...

From 2024 to 2025, there were 1.7 billion passenger rail journeys, of which 1.08 billion were completed within a single ...

His report to the Senate called it ‘national income’ and defined it as ‘that part of the economy’s end-product which is ...

When growth is weak, entry-level opportunities are scarce, employers are cautious and the public finances that pay for ...

However, whoever gets the top job at 1 Horse Guards Road, they should make tax reform their top priority if they want to ...