Category Archives: Economics

Cutting the cost of living: simplifying energy tariffs

Posted on Monday May 20th 2013 by Greg Barker MP

Last autumn the Prime Minister promised to take action to cut through the bewildering number of energy tariffs that we were left with by the last Labour Government and to put every consumer on the cheapest tariff available to them. … Continue reading →

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Rights are not commodities

Posted on Monday April 22nd 2013 by Administrator

As the Lords’ votes on “shares for rights” for the last time, Tom Morrison-Bell argues that the proposal is immoral. The great Indian polymath, Rabindranath Tagore wrote in 1917 that “the moral man, the complete man, is more and more … Continue reading →

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The ‘paying for content’ decision

Posted on Friday April 5th 2013 by Nick Denys

The last decade has been golden for those of us who gorge on information.  News, comment, entertainment – thanks to the internet there is a unlimited supply, almost all of which is free. The copious amounts of available distractions allows … Continue reading →

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If council tax goes up, will voters blame local or central government?

Posted on Thursday March 28th 2013 by Gordon Hector

Next week, Council Tax Benefit (CTB) is being reformed. It means that more people will pay more tax – but it’s unclear who’s going to be blamed. At the moment, CTB is a single system administered from the DWP. From … Continue reading →

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Ronseal Politics: The macro needs to be connected to the micro

Posted on Friday March 15th 2013 by Nick Denys

An old criticism of Gordon Brown was that while he knew what price a barrel of oil was being traded at he was unaware of the price of petrol at the pump. The implication being, while Brown was economically intelligent … Continue reading →

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