Today is International Anti-Corruption Day and, this year, it gets extra juice because it coincides with President Biden’s Summit for Democracy, where free societies are coming together to oppose authoritarianism, corruption and human rights abuses. And given America’s extremely welcome set of announcements in the last few days about improving…
This article was written by John and originally published in The Telegraph. Obsessing over equalising incomes is the wrong way to go about improving people’s lives In the past 40 years Britain has pretty much defeated mass unemployment, and improved living standards beyond our parents’ and grandparents’ wildest dreams. Yet…
This article was written by John originally for Politics Home Great herds of world leaders, climate change activists and media crews are all converging on Glasgow at the COP26 climate summit, like one of nature’s great animal migrations, to try to save the planet. There will be lofty speeches, lots…
Article written by Martina Bet and published in the print version of The London Evening Standard. Conservative former minister John Penrose praised Chancellor Rishi Sunak for the changes to the taper rate announced in last week’s Budget, he urged the Government to go further towards a Nigel Lawson-esque kind of tax system,…