France’s Socialist 75 percent tax rate is economic suicide
Back in May I wrote a piece describing Francois Hollande’s election victory as emblematic of the EU’s decline, noting that “his government promises to be a symbol of everything that is wrong with...
View ArticleEconomic freedom and marriage go together like a horse and carriage
The Census results show what an uphill struggle Conservatives face in the next fear years, as this ConHome piece points out. Take the decline of marriage and the increasing number of single people –...
View ArticlePresident Obama continues to drive America towards European-style decline
The United States has not gone over the “fiscal cliff”, but it has taken another major step towards EU-style decline. The fiscal cliff deal pushed by President Obama and subsequently ratified by the...
View ArticleRugby isn't a game. It's an assault course dreamt up by a sadist
This article appeared in the Sunday Telegraph. For feeble men, such as me, British summers are a miserable time. I’m not speaking of the dangers of allergies or sunburn, but something far, far worse....
View ArticleNick Clegg is laying the ground for more taxes on the rich
Nick Clegg was on form for Marr. He set out his election offer, namely that the Lib Dems are the disc brakes of British politics, able to slow or even stop the excesses and ineptitudes of either of the...
View ArticleTax cuts are popular – but more importantly, they're the right thing to do
Tax cuts, eh? We Conservatives never lost a general election in the Eighties when offering them. Ever since we bought into that whole “modernisation-means-matching-Labour-spending-plans” schtick, we’ve...
View ArticleImmigration isn't just a numbers game: Britons want to feel like they control...
Here’s a classic example of how the metropolitan elite gets it wrong every darned time. The latest immigration figures show that there are currently 144,000 Bulgarians and Romanians working in the UK –...
View ArticleHigh-tax California v low-tax Texas: a tale of two states
Last month, California’s unemployment rate fell to 7.8 per cent. In Texas, the unemployment rate fell to 5.2 per cent. In 2011-12, California’s high school graduation rate for Hispanics was 73 per...
View ArticleEd Miliband says Scottish independence would mean lower taxes. Is that a bad...
Ed Miliband is in Scotland, urging people there to stay in the Union. His argument, as laid out here by LabourList, is worth a look. In summary, he’s starting from the premise that Scots are more...
View ArticleDavid Cameron versus Ed Miliband: the narrative the Tories are desperate for
Even before David Cameron’s speech, the Conservatives had had a pretty good conference season. Despite several challenges of varying seriousness – a minor scandal, the Ukip threat, and polls that just...
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