The Office of Budget Responsibility have published their most recent fiscal risks and sustainability report. One of the biggest risks to the UK economy is the cost of pensions. Pensions have been growing much faster than the economy for the last 10 years+. I wrote about this last month which caused howls of anguish – … Read more
Do We Really Spend £1 Billion a Week on Benefits for Foreigners? No. Last weekend, The Telegraph ran an eye-catching headline: Cue a flurry of shares from Reform UK supporters and the usual angry right-wingers on social media. Unsurprisingly, most hadn’t read the article—just the headline. The piece itself was behind a paywall, which didn’t … Read more
The tragic death of a boat full of desperate people trying to reach the UK has focused attention on the growing numbers of people crossing the channel in small boats. This has been a problem for months now, and the Governments response has centred on implausible get tough schemes that grab the headlines but which … Read more