Nigel Farage won Clacton. But did his unnecessary by-election actually make his political problems worse? Farage beat Count Binface after calling an election that cost
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Since waking rather early this morning, and without the benefit of any alarm clock, Nigel Farage’s by-election result (I hesitate to call it a victory)
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What is microeconomics really about? Conventional economics usually puts markets at the centre of the answer. It assumes that individuals make rational choices and that
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Watching the Clacton by-election count declaration has been an odd experience. Farage, unsurprisingly, increased the number of votes that he won in this election compared
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It takes some considerable inability to call an election by resigning your seat as an MP to seek what you describe as a new democratic
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Ever since I wrote my book ‘The Joy of Tax’, I have argued that there are six reasons to tax, none of which have anything
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We had a team meeting earlier this week. There’s nothing surprising about that. We usually start the week reviewing the previous one, setting plans, and
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I made this video for The National yesterday: Colonialism is alive and well, and living in Westminster’s extraction of value from Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland
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I missed this in the Financial Times from 30 July: The number of “non-doms” [in the UK] dropped by less than 1 per cent immediately
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