Our top ten picks of the week

Henry Hill

“[T]he British state is back in the game of fixing by decree the price of a commodity (labour) at an arbitrary point – and it is going about as well as it usually does.”

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Tali Fraser

“At one stage Kemi Badenoch appeared to open the door to means testing but then quickly said “‘no’ to looking at the triple lock”. Privately, however, there has been a larger wave of new thinking.”

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We keep making things that are already illegal even more illegal

John Oxley

“Like the Emperor, Sir Keir Starmer is clamping down on Japanese swords. This is not, however, a play to reduce the powers of feudal warlords… but instead another piece of muddle-headed legislation designed to chase headlines rather than address real issues.”

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You can’t expect the young to vote Conservative if they’ve never been given a Conservative vision

Miriam Cates

“But if conservatism is about having a material stake in the future, it’s not just housing costs that dissuade young people from voting Tory. Below-replacement birth rates over the last 50 years have shifted the burden of an ageing population onto the young.”

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Starmer is following Blair across Powell’s transatlantic bridge to nowhere

Andrew Gilligan

“Even a much more conventional US administration cared little for what Britain wanted, and did, of course, exactly what it believed to be in its own interest.”

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Why wouldn’t the Swiss wealth tax work here? All our other taxes

Alexander Bowen

“I do not think I need explain why a 100 per cent tax would not work; one need hardly be Ibn Khaldun or a laffer-curve zealot to think that there is a problem.”

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Brown’s spending splurge is the root of Britain’s rotten finances – and the numbers prove it

Andrew Willshire

“[T]he deficit run in the seven years prior to the Great Financial Crash (GFC) in 2008 was in itself a Covid-level event for government finances – during a boom.”

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PIP is a fiscal crisis in the making

Steve Loftus

“A system designed to reduce disability benefit costs by 20 per cent instead increased them by 20 per cent by 2019, costing £1.5-2bn more annually than the DLA system it replaced.”

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Ensuring health, safety and security in the collection of sex data is more important than concerns over causing offence

Ben Spencer MP

“It doesn’t take a medical background to know diseases such as cervical cancer can only affect women, prostate cancer only men, and that accurate recording of biological data is needed in order to screen for these diseases.”

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Henry Hill

“Tony Blair, informed that the ECHR required that prisoners have the vote, chose simply to ignore it. He certainly exhibited none of the reverance for the ‘New Labour settlement’ as would Conservative ministers…”

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