If you believe getting more homes built in the right places is the most important issue facing the country, this has been a pretty dispiriting few months. First the Government...
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What’s really behind Oxfam’s big inequality report?
It’s Davos time, which also means it’s time for Oxfam’s annual whine about wealth inequality and how ghastly everything is. It would help more than just a little bit if the...
The Economist
The answer to lobbying is laissez-faire
The actual first rule of Fight Club is to get your retaliation in first. It is this which explains the two linked stories today. Why are tech companies employing the likes...
The Economist
How Britain’s housing market has created a mobility crisis
The dynamics of the UK’s housing crisis are well-documented: millions prevented from getting on the housing ladder, sky-high rents for often woefully inadequate accommodation...
The Economist
Women’s property rights and the path to prosperity
The struggle for women’s liberation is often framed in terms of the campaign to secure the vote in the early years of the 20th century. Less heralded is the way women in several...
The Economist
Aldi, Lidl and the beauty of competitive capitalism
One doesn’t expect to find the Guardian extolling the virtues of capitalism, but yesterday’s long-read on Aldi may be the exception that proves the rule. The story of the deep...