Benjamin Franklin famously said that ‘nothing is certain except death and taxes’. Well, it used to be pretty certain that this generation wo...

I thought I wouldn’t need to write about PPP ever  again . However, as the Chancellor is considering private finance for new infrastructure...

 The Herald has been running a series of articles on ScotRail since it was taken into partial public ownership as the ‘operator of last res...

Life expectancy has increased in the UK more or less constantly for more than a century. Around 2012, this all stopped, and among poorer pop...

I participated in a European foundation workshop last week, which examined the impact of a Trump presidency on Europe. While European leader...

 I am sadly old enough to remember when budget purdah was a thing. Clearly, no more, with relatively few surprises in today's budget , w...

 If you are interested in economic policy, I recommend reading Torsten Bell’s new book , Great Britain? How We Get Our Future Back . In it, ...