Dr Andrew Lilico
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What policy questions will be created by driverless cars? — Institute of Economic Affairs
The 2020s will see the introduction of one of the most profoundly transformative technologies for decades: the driverless car. In the world we have inhabited for the past 60 years, most adults own cars that they drive daily, which they then park in their garages, front yards or on the street, or in car parks … Continue reading "What policy questions will be created by driverless cars?" → Read More
What trade deals do and do not mean for domestic laws — Institute of Economic Affairs
One of the larger benefits those of a liberal economics bent often ascribe to trade deals is that they provide an excuse for stripping away dumb domestic laws. A classic scenario is something like the following. At some point decades ago a government found it convenient to ally itself with either producers in some sector … Continue reading "What trade deals do and do not mean for domestic laws" → Read More
The Stronger Towns Fund is gesture politics. And that is no bad thing
The UK is much less regionally unequal than some would have you believe → Read More
Austerity may be on hold, but it isn't over
In 2018 the government made three significant attempts to declare that the “age of austerity” most famously associated with George Osborne was finally at an end. Spin around the Spring Budget, a speech in October by Theresa May, and the Autumn Budget all declared austerity nearing its end. Unfortunately, however, in the case of the … → Read More
May must go
It’s time for May to go. Both Party and country are drifting, possibly to disaster, and she is simply incapable, any more, of leading us anywhere. If she is kept in place this evening, that means she is in place for another year — in place through Brexit if that happens on time; in place through any second referendum, if we opt for that instead; in place through a General Election, if nothing… → Read More
Brexiteers should hold their nerve and set a course for No Deal
Whichever way you slice it, all paths now lead to a No Deal Brexit → Read More
The Bank of England's Brexit forecasts aren't just wrong. They're absurd
The UK economy is not going to contract 8 per cent in a year, no matter how disorderly Brexit gets → Read More
No deal is better than this deal
This path is madness. Everyone can see it, yet we hurtle on → Read More
Mark Carney has made mistakes
The Bank of England has badly damaged the British economy since the financial crisis → Read More
Bad jokes, not much Brexit and just enough politics
Well, the 2018 Budget was not quite as much of a non-event as many had forecast. Stronger than expected tax revenues and slightly faster growth provided Philip Hammond with a little extra wriggle room, and he gave himself even more by deciding not to balance the budget. That allowed him to meet the £20bn NHS … → Read More
Beyond the platitudes, John McDonnell's true aims are increasingly clear
The Shadow Chancellor, delivered his pre-Budget speech today. John McDonnell usually manages to include in his speeches one or two interesting-if-horribly-destructive new policy ideas. One might have assumed a pre-Budget speech would be the occasion for a few more. But McDonnell kept his focus firmly on established ground. Most of McDonnell’s speech was political and … → Read More
Does the patent system need fixing?
Mazzucato's proposed changes to intellectual property are polluted by a prejudice against profit → Read More
Austerity isn't over
The figures don't lie - more spending cuts are coming down the line → Read More
Jeremy Corbyn, Gordon Gekko and the morality of markets
Share * Greed cannot bring down a market system * Markets work because they do not rely on the virtue of their participants * Financial capitalism needs reform. But not the sort of reform Corbyn is proposing In his speech at Labour Party Conference this afternoon, Jeremy Corbyn said, “Ten years ago this month, the whole edifice of greed-is-good, deregulated financial capitalism, lauded for a… → Read More
Cheering Wonga's demise misses the point about payday lending
Be careful what you wish for when it comes to payday loans → Read More
CANZUK is calling. Will Britain respond?
There is clear support for CANZUK free movement as part of a new alliance. → Read More
Forcing small firms to publish their pay gap wouldn't help women
There's plenty of confusion around what pay statistics do - and don't - reveal about gender equality → Read More
There's a reason Corbynism appeals to cranks and anti-Semites
Corbynism is not appealing to communists, anti-Semites and conspiracy theorists despite its essential nature, but because of it → Read More
May's flawed Chequers plan makes a confidence vote inevitable
May will look a fool if she survives the resignations, only to see the EU turn her plan down → Read More
The evidence is clear: government spending means less growth
Theresa May risks undoing all the hard work done to get the deficit down → Read More