The need is urgent. The Care Quality Commission’s national maternity inspection 2022 to 2024 flagged many issues. In nearly half of the 131 maternity units reviewed, services were rated ‘inadequate’ ...

Governments generally use Christmas and the New Year to bury bad news, hoping no-one will notice while they’re distracted by paper hats, mince pies and brandy butter. But this year Housing Minister ...

Popular capitalism plays an important role within this wider strategy. It should involve boosting national savings and ...

But on the economics, the story isn’t actually that nuanced. The prospects for Britain to benefit from deeper economic ties ...

ESG may have begun as a voluntary signal of corporate ethics, but in today’s high-cost, low-growth Britain it functions as an ...

In our lineup of impoverishing culprits, the usual suspect came first. Britain’s quagmirish planning system is holding back ...

AI could also raise public‑sector productivity, particularly in areas such as healthcare and education, reducing the state’s expenditure burden. In combination, faster productivity growth and a ...

Finally, we have the proposal that strikes me as the least attractive – merging police constabularies to provide supposedly ...

Sven Beckert, a Harvard professor, has written a very long history of capitalism. As its subtitle suggests, ‘Capitalism: A ...

Keir Starmer prides himself on his relationship with Trump Starmer has long professed a nonsensical China policy disguised as ...

Against that backdrop, the white paper feels like a quiet departure from the Government’s faux tough‑guy campaigning ...

Subsidies create distortions. They alter the natural balance of supply, demand and fair competition in the marketplace. The ...