When Policy Fails

By Political Insight Director, Suzanne Evans News that UK rental prices have hit a 13-year high is a classic example of unintended policy consequences. According to online property sales website Zoopla, rental prices now stand an average 12% higher than pre-covid,...

Your Local Council and the Energy Crisis

By Suzanne Evans, Director, Political Insight News of the imminent collapse of Together Energy comes as no great surprise. Sky News claims the energy supplier is likely to run out of money later this month and that a last-ditch search for new funding is unlikely to...

Under Fire: The Gig Economy

The rise of the so-called ‘gig’ or ‘on-demand’ economy,’ has been a significant feature of the 21st century workplace, transforming as it has not only the way some 25% of us now work according to research by management consultants McKinsey, but also dramatically...

Normality Shall Not Yet Resume

Despite it looking like the Omicron Covid variant is going to be less dangerous to health than its forerunners – according to the World Health Organisation, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, and Dr Angelique Coetzee, chairman of the South...

Trouble at the Top

It cannot be denied that the Prime Minister is having a very bad week. A row at the start of the week, after backing down on manifesto commitments no one would have to sell their home to pay for social care, and accusations his new solution will be unfair on poorer...