On the last day of July, a brief procedural decision at the Supreme Court quietly drew a line under one of the more protracted planning disputes in recent British aviation history. The court declined to grant campaigners permission to appeal…
There is a certain symmetry to watching an administration that lost at the highest court in the land simply reach for a different legal hook and try again. That, in essence, is what twenty-five Democratic-led states are alleging in a…
New figures compiled by the TaxPayers’ Alliance reveal that 45 of 131 trade union bosses in Britain earned more than £100,000 last year, with one in six receiving total remuneration packages worth £170,000 or more — a sum equivalent to…
Bank of England Chief Economist Huw Pill cautioned on Friday that Britain faces a gradual build-up of long-term inflation pressures, driven by the surge in energy prices that has followed the Iran conflict and the closure of the Strait of…
The normal retirement age across the European Union is projected to increase by approximately two years for men and 2.6 years for women between now and the late 2060s, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Pensions at…
A Problem That Has Outlasted Every Prime Minister Who Tried to Solve It Social care reform has defeated every administration that has attempted it since the Royal Commission on Care convened in 1999. In the quarter-century since, twenty-two inquiries and…
The origins of this particular pressure point lie in a structural feature of the British self-assessment regime that many taxpayers discover only when they first encounter a bill large enough to trigger it. For years, HMRC has operated a system…
A flagship immigration reform is already showing cracks, and the new Prime Minister has yet to fully commit to it. Andy Burnham has signalled he may water down the proposal advanced by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood that would require most…
Why is social care back on the political agenda? Adult social care is one of those perennial policy failures that successive governments have circled, promised to fix, and ultimately left untouched. Now Andy Burnham, the new Prime Minister, is signalling…
From 27 August, plug-in solar panels will be legal to sell and use in Great Britain. The government has amended existing plug and electricity safety regulations, removing the principal legislative obstacle that had kept these devices out of mainstream British…