Perhaps the easiest way for the Conservatives to lose the next election is by asking their version of Ronald Reagan’s famous address when running for his second term as President: “Are you better off now than you were four[teen] years ago?”
Category: The United Kingdom
Soft-Power Struggles: China’s Influence on British Universities
By Tommy Thin The UK’s relationship with China is indisputably complex. This much is acknowledged by the British Government itself in the House of Lords’ digital library which weighs up “economic ties” and the importance of China as a trading partner against “disagreements on issues such as human rights” – so diplomatically put. The British…
Let Them Eat Cake, Not Biscuits: Why The UK’s Tax System is Broken
by Jack Parbrook Is the Jaffa Cake a cake or a biscuit? The question is of such significance that in 1991 the matter had to be resolved in court. Manufacturer United Biscuits found itself before a VAT (Value Added Tax) tribunal in 1991, sparring with the tax authorities who asserted that the treat was a…
ARIA: a new era of British innovation
by Martin Guy
Britain’s Decarbonisation Headache
by Jeremy Becker
What the British economy can learn from France
The French economy faces many challenges; but Britain can learn much from its attitude to long-term investment.
Third time lucky? The tragedy of UK politics
By Yoohyun Son The socio-political climate in the UK has been turbulent, to say the least. On Tuesday 25 October, Rishi Sunak became Britain’s third prime minister in the space of two months. It is as though the public is spectating some kind of relay race, in which the baton is being passed from one…
Taking a gamble on playing it safe: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak
By Mark Connolly With all the grace of a bus crashing through a wall, the United Kingdom has been thrust into yet another political era – the third one this year, no less. Now-former Prime Minister Liz Truss wasn’t exactly forced out, or at least not in the same manner as Boris Johnson’s unedifying defenestration…
Just Stop Oil: The Fresh Face of Climate Activism
By Annabelle Bower It goes without saying that this week has rapidly spiralled into one of the most chaotic in UK political history. Following the resignation of Britain’s shortest-serving Prime Minister Liz Truss, her 45 days of power and the economic turmoil that persists has thrown the Conservative party into a state of utter disarray,…
From Empire to Nation: The Death of the Queen and the Road Ahead
By Mark Connolly
A leader in no shape to lead: Johnson’s confidence vote
By Mark Connolly
The St Andrews Economist 