How to save Britain from a doom loop of decay, decline – and default

And yet the size of the UK’s public sector has inexorably increased, from around 30pc of GDP last century to, during Covid, over 50pc; even now it is around 45pc. The number shows little sign of reducing.  Second: along with a large state comes the corollary: high taxes. Over and again, academic studies have shown […]

In Guatemala, At Least, Democracy Is Winning

Democracy could use a win. All around the world, states have been taken over by strongmen dead set on extracting as much wealth as they can from the societies they rule. In Russia and Venezuela, Myanmar and Angola, weak electoral systems have given way to hyper-corrupt autocracies. And democrats haven’t really figured out how to […]