http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/857936372 Rope-A-Dope In October 1974, Muhammad Ali fought George Foreman for the World Heavyweight Championship, in Kinshasa, Zaire. The contest was advertised as The Rumble In The Jungle. The fight confounded all expectations. Whilst the first round was conventional enough, in the second – much to the consternation of his own team – Ali […]
The answer to the benefit problem or an idealistic pipe-dream? A progressive measure or a scroungers’ charter? Those are some of the things said about “Universal Basic Income”, aka “Citizen’s Income”. Currently, several countries are looking seriously at the feasibility of the concept. What Does It Mean? The idea is that every individual should receive a […]
The UK state pension system is in financial difficulty. Can we remove the problem by moving to a funded basis? Some think we can. They’re wrong, as it would be no solution at all.[1] The most recent proposal of this kind, covering the UK as a whole, comes from Reform Scotland, which styles itself as […]
So, what’s all this fuss about women and pension age? Why can’t the Government simply use money from National Insurance to smooth things over? Women Against State Pension Age Inequality (WASPI) describes itself as “… a campaign group that fights the injustice done to all women born in the 1950s affected by the changes to the State […]
There’s one area of public policy on which the major parties used to agree, but to which their commitment has lately become more ambiguous. Just as well, because it’s completely ridiculous, being based on economic illiteracy at best and shameful deception at worst. Once, Twice … Three Times A Liability This policy is known as the […]