We need to talk more about home ownership Tuesday, 17 December, 2024 Home ownership. Two simple words, but which conjure so many images in so many minds. Labour plan to build 1.5 million new homes over the Parliament and their tax and legal changes are explicitly designed to reduce the scale of the private landlord class. However, these two measures seem to not understand what it is that they are trying to do. They conflate outputs and outcomes. They talk the... Articles
We need to think much more carefully about assisted suicide 16th October 2024 The ever-so-powerful and noble campaign led by Dame Esther Rantzen has resulted in Parliament looking again at assisted dying. This issue deserves the time and... Articles
We must take the fight to Labour on ideas, not just the day-to-day realities of government 10th September 2024 There is no hiding it. The British people delivered a whopping rejection of the Conservative Party; worse than 1997, even pipping the 1906 general election... Articles
After five years of global crises, the Prime Minister offers hope for the future 3rd July 2024 ‘There are decades where nothing happens, and then there are weeks where decades happen’. This oft-attributed quote to Valdimir Lenin undoubtedly described the... Articles
General election: Sheffield Conservatives attend Hustings but Labour absent and Candidate wants to talk about policy, not personalities 2nd July 2024 The Sheffield Conservative Federation Chairman, Steven Winstone, attended a general election Hustings event on Monday 24th June 2024 but Labour was absent from... Articles
Aaron Jacob selected as Conservative Party Candidate in Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough 7th June 2024 Aaron Jacob has been selected as the Conservative Party Candidate in Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough. Aaron can't wait to meet residents and businesses... Local News
Financial policy: from gold to central bank independence 8th December 2022 Inflation is the most significant issue in macroeconomics today. Its significance arises primarily due to its quiescence in the 2010s, and that its rate today... Articles
Inflation: policy lessons from the 1920s 12th August 2022 It is trite to say that the macroeconomic problem today is inflation. Advanced Western economies have emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic to find consumer price... Articles
The challenge for levelling up is over a century old. Agile local government is essential if it’s to be met. 30th June 2022 The idea of ‘Levelling Up’ holds such strong purchase in the popular imagination that seldom is it explicitly defined. Participants in the national debate take... Local News
History teaches us that there is no time to wait in tackling inflation 26th April 2022 It’s back. The inflation beast from the 1970s, which policymakers long thought they had slain, is now the salient issue in economics and politics. The debate... Articles
