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Brendan O’Neill
The myth of Thatcherism
The idea that Britain’s problems are all the fault of the evil ‘Mrs T’ distorts history, and lets the left and Labour off the hook.
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| Wednesday 27 March 2013 |
Bruno Waterfield
Treating Cyprus as the Eurozone’s lab rat
The Euro elites have bullied Cyprus into becoming an economic experiment, and to hell with what Cypriots want.
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| Tuesday 12 March 2013 |
James Woudhuysen
3D printing: neither gimmick nor revolution
ESSAY: While additive manufacturing will be a very useful technology, it cannot transform the fortunes of capitalism.
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| Wednesday 27 February 2013 |
Rob Lyons
The real downgrade is in economic expectations
Moody’s decision to withdraw the UK’s AAA rating is not a shock or a disaster, but it is a sign of policy failure.
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| Tuesday 19 February 2013 |
Phil Mullan
Shale: the ‘IT bubble’ of the 21st century?
ESSAY: In the second part of his essay on the US economy, Phil Mullan says economic recovery will require more than a fracking bonanza.
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| Monday 18 February 2013 |
Phil Mullan
Industrial renaissance in the US: miracle or mirage?
ESSAY: In the first part of a two-part essay, Phil Mullan picks apart the hype of America's much-touted manufacturing recovery.
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| Friday 1 February 2013 |
Rob Lyons
Are one-in-five Britons really living in poverty?
A new book casts a sceptical eye at today’s poverty claims, and offers some thoughts on how people might be made wealthier.
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| Wednesday 30 January 2013 |
Daniel Ben-Ami
Inequality did not cause the crisis
ESSAY: Widening inequality in the US should be seen as a symptom rather than cause of today’s economic malaise.
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| Thursday 3 January 2013 |
Sean Collins
A bad cliffhanger
The US 'fiscal cliff' talks were depicted as a tense dash to save America, but in truth all the big questions were left out.
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| Monday 10 December 2012 |
Rob Lyons
How we’re all being seduced by the state
Neither George Osborne nor his left-wing critics are willing to face up to the fact that the state is strangling both individual and capitalist initiative.
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| Monday 29 October 2012 |
José Castro Caldas
The Eurocrats stage a coup d'etat
Europe’s financial crisis is being used to justify the denial of democracy and a permanent state of emergency.
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| Thursday 16 August 2012 |
Rob Lyons
Let’s get real about
the Eurozone crisis
After five years of Euro chaos, our leaders are still carrying out firefighting exercises rather than coming up with long-term solutions.
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| Thursday 16 August 2012 |
Tim Black
Did the free market ruin our railways?
Squeezing the debate about Britain’s railways into the tired free market vs nationalisation script makes no sense.
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| Tuesday 31 July 2012 |
Tom Bailey
Is David Gauke a member of UK Uncut?
So-called radical tax campaigns have legitimised attacks on everyone’s desire to sidestep the taxman.
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| Tuesday 10 July 2012 |
Brendan O’Neill
The real Balls-up in the British economy
So what if Ed Balls didn’t directly okay Libor-fiddling at Barclays. He, with others, definitely helped screw up both the economy and society.
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| Wednesday 4 July 2012 |
Brendan O’Neill
They’re all Barclays
bankers now...
Depicting Barclays’ Libor-fiddling staff as uniquely corrupt overlooks what they share in common with the rest of the reckless ruling class.
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| Monday 2 July 2012 |
James Woudhuysen
Design alone can’t save UK plc
Making products attractive and user-friendly is a smart idea, but it is no substitute for R&D and investment.
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| Friday 11 May 2012 |
Daniel Ben-Ami
The petty politics of the
anti-inequality brigade
ESSAY: Don’t be fooled by their egalitarian rhetoric - today’s equality campaigners simply dislike both the super-rich and ‘trailer trash’.
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| Wednesday 18 April 2012 |
Daniel Ben-Ami
Inequality: a middle-class obsession
ESSAY: Unlike past warriors for equality, today’s campaigners simply dislike both the super-rich and ‘trailer trash’.
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| Tuesday 10 April 2012 |
Tim Black
This isn’t politics, it’s accountancy
The obsession with how much tax politicians pay confirms that the cult of transparency is destroying political debate.
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