Economy

The official inflation rate has nothing to do with an oversupply of money. It is the result of too much taxation.

The loss of 10 percent of deliveries in a complex just-in-time system was all it took to initiate a “cascading collapse.”

The crises breaking over our heads have been decades in the making

In recent years, government budgets, spring statements and spending reviews have tended to unravel within hours.

“Gougeflation” would be a more accurate term...

There are many reasons for the slow death of pub culture in the UK, but government is among the biggest.

We are now reaping the consequences of decisions made half a century ago

Our predicament is not dissimilar to that of a cancer patient... There is no good alternative.

The common trend in British infrastructure over the last half century has been to trade resilience for profit.

The big risk to the UK economy from April is that we witness a Laffer Effect on steroids…