Tag: UK government

Social policy would, in the long run, owe far more to Eleanor Roosevelt’s claim that “everyone has the right to a standard of living” than to Beveridge’s assertion that “management of one’s income is an essential element of a citizen’s freedom”.

Ireland accounts for a share of global profit disproportionate to the size of the Irish economy. Not because business in Ireland is particularly successful but because reporting profits in Ireland is particularly attractive.

Prevarication and political posturing, the persistent incrementalism when bold actions are required and the readiness to oppose policies simply because they have been espoused by somebody else, are as characteristic of policy today as they have been for the past 50 years.

What would an independent Scotland actually be like? The only sensible answer is that no one really knows.

On the 29th October John gave evidence to the parliamentary commission on banking standards. The discussion covered banking culture, regulation, competition and corporate governance. Watch in...

Some complexity is unavoidable, but much of the complexity consumers experience is not.

Wouldn’t it be simpler if poor people in work were just paid more in the first place? That is, apparently, predistribution.

The only bread fit to eat is bread baked today: but why should today’s bakers feed the retired bakers of yesteryear?

In a world full of information and short of our attention, the events that affect behaviour are those that are salient.

John will be launching the final report of his review of UK Equity Markets and Long-Term Decision Making on the 23rd July, at the...