The Panama Papers add a sinister new twist to an issue that has been blighting the London property market for years, and required action long before now. Thanks to The Guardian’s disclosures about Mossack Fonseca’s clients, we now have a clearer picture of some of the individuals behind the more than £170bn worth of UK… [Read More]
The British Medical Association have taken an extremely bold move in deciding to hold two full walk outs for the first time over new junior doctor contracts; these are in addition to an already planned 48 hour strike on the 6th of April. The two more severe strikes are scheduled for the 26th and 27th… [Read More]
The Chancellor’s budget announcement concerning the introduction of a sugar tax has, as expected, brought both elation and dismay to interested lobbying groups. Most people are now familiar with the arguments from both for and against parties. Advocates claim the tax will reduce the consumption of sugar, save our children from obesity, and reduce the incidence of associated diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular… [Read More]
It is perhaps surprising that it has taken so long for Public Health England (PHE) to launch a campaign to reduce preventable diseases in adults. While the campaign against childhood obesity has been established for some years, with regular reminders of healthy diet and behaviour appearing on billboards and television, it seems that the worsening… [Read More]
Our referendum has awakened the people of Europe and there is already talk of a demand for referendums in other EU member states. It has rattled the ruling class in Brussels who are calling it a contagion that could spread. For them, it seems, an outbreak of freedom and democracy is a kind of disease.… [Read More]
George Osborne claimed yesterday that leaving the EU would cause a ‘profound economic shock’. And yet the London stock market rose in the week after the referendum was announced. ‘In my judgement as chancellor leaving the EU would represent a profound economic shock for our country, for all of us and I’m going to do… [Read More]
Will the 27 other EU members be spiteful towards us if we leave? According to the Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, if we leave the EU the other 27 ‘will interpret a leave decision as two fingers from the UK, and we can expect precisely the same in return’. Mr Hammond plainly thinks that Brussels officials… [Read More]
The number of Certificates of Good Standing (CGSs) issued to Junior doctors rose by 1,000 per cent on the day Jeremy Hunt announced that he would impose the new contract on them despite the British Medical Association’s (BMA) refusal to accept its clauses. When British doctors seek to work abroad they usually have to present… [Read More]
Research by the Resolution Foundation this week shines a spotlight on not just the decline in home ownership but the group most affected by it: those on low to middle incomes, among whom owner-occupation fell from 73 per cent in 2000 to 55 per cent in 2014. Among the under-35s in that income bracket (those… [Read More]
David Cameron’s idea that the Calais asylum seeker camps could move to Kent after Brexit is the latest example of argument over Britain’s future in which the Remain case is labelled ‘scaremongering’. Last week the Leave side had a similar experience with the Daily Mail running the headline ‘Quit the EU to save our NHS:… [Read More]