Allister Heath



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 * So many in business are angry and frustrated - The UK Government must take note of the malaise at the heart of the business community - 17th November 2015
 * Why I’m worried for the future of UK Plc - The accumulation of dozens upon dozens of these over such a long period of time is beginning to hurt - 14th November 2015
 * Europhiles think history is on their side – they could be in for a shock - By dismissing Outers as out-of-date traditionalists, the EU’s cheerleaders have made a big mistake which may cost them the referendum - 12th November 2015
 * Junior doctors are victims of an NHS that’s broken beyond repair - The rest of the world has more sensible healthcare funding – so the medical brain drain will get worse - 5th November 2015
 * World trade is far too weak - let’s hope tech rescues it - The most worrying factor behind our current subdued trade growth is the ongoing repression and deglobalisation of the financial sector - 3rd November 2015
 * The Bank of England’s report wasn’t really about our EU membership - The Bank reminds us that economic integration is a good thing, and tearing down barriers boosts competition, innovation and GDP per capita - 24th October 2015
 * Airports: Will the Government please stop talking and just start building - We have been faffing around for decades while continental rivals built new air capacity. Now is the time to put up or become a global laughing stock - 22nd October 2015
 * Why the UK’s Nobel Prize winner rejects foreign aid - Angus Deaton has made powerful arguments against foreign aid that expose our Government’s shallowness in the matter - 13th October 2015
 * Salami-slicing the state won’t be enough to reboot UK Plc - The only way to sustainably slash public spending is to start from a blank sheet of paper, decide what the Government should and shouldn’t do, and re-engineer the state accordingly - 10th October 2015
 * The real ticking time bomb for the Tories is home ownership - The PM's vision of an aspirational meritocracy will come to nothing if there's nowhere to live - 9th October 2015
 * No, Jeremy Corbyn, Italy is not a good economic role model - Italy is an economic basketcase that has suffered over the past 15 years and is now struggling with debt. Do we really want to copy that? - 2nd October 2015
 * One thing is clear – Jeremy Corbyn has no understanding of the British people - The Labour leader’s sub-Marxist drivel assumes the whole country is like his own constituency. But middle-class voters don't need his brand of 'help' - 1st October 2015
 * The North can learn a lot from the South's ability to adapt and grow - All of Britain must embrace a high-skilled, flexible, ultra-entrepreneurial and hyper-globalised world economy - 26th September 2015
 * Group-think and delusion: why VW lost its bearings - Was Volkswagen too big and thus unmanageable, did it think it wouldn't be caught, or did it strive to be number one at any cost? - 25th September 2015
 * The Volkswagen scandal reveals the corruption of the Left's regulation dreamworld - Liberal, competitive capitalism is the opposite of the law of the jungle because it depends on rules. Those who transgress must be swiftly punished - 24th September 2015
 * Volkswagen scandal could be car industry's Libor moment - With car makers facing tough competition from the likes of Google and Apple, the industry now has to deal with a scandal - 22nd September 2015
 * We musn’t ban cash or inflate the pound - Andrew Haldane, the Bank of of England's chief economist, could hardly be any more wrong with his latest economic plan - 19th September 2015
 * Jeremy Corbyn is no populist - he's an old Left elitist in shabby disguise - The new Labour leader's old-fashioned Marxism may appeal to a socialist elite, but it is missing a key ingredient — nationalism - 17th September 2015
 * Why Jeremy Corbyn and his team would ruin the economy - Everybody bar trade union bosses and a few other left-wing vested interest groups would lose out if Labour took power - 15th September 2015
 * A bright new optimism is sweeping Britain – and it hails from the Right - Now it’s Labour and its supporters who want to turn back the clock to a supposed golden age - 11th September 2015
 * Jeremy Corbyn’s economics make no sense at all - Corbynomics would destroy Britain’s reputation even more quickly than even his fiercest critics could possibly imagine - 5th September 2015
 * How the new national living wage will kill jobs - There's nothing more cruel than freezing people out from the chance of employment, Mr Osborne - 14th August 2015
 * Fasten your seatbelts – there’s a little economic turbulence ahead - There are signs that the recovery is slowing, which is all the more reason for No 10 to hold its nerve - 13th August 2015
 * Labour's ABC: Time to choose Anyone But Corbyn - Jeremy Corbyn's economically illiterate plans to nationalise industry will terrify the English public and aspirational middle classes - 12th August 2015
 * Jeremy Corbyn is wrong about high taxes - You can't just massively increase taxes on a group of people and expect them to continue as before - 9th August 2015
 * At last, wages are rising and productivity is growing - The economy is now doing too well, and wages growing too quickly, for emergency levels of interest rates sensibly to be maintained - 8th August 2015
 * A Corbyn victory in the Labour leadership battle would be a disaster - If Jeremy Corbyn became leader of the Labour Party, it would become acceptable again to call for nationalising vast swathes of industry, for massively hiking tax and for demonising business - 2nd August 2015
 * Amazon’s deal with Jeremy Clarkson shows the BBC licence fee is obsolete - The Beeb’s campaign to retain the licence fee is a classic case of corporate short-termism - 31st July 2015
 * Why the UK must never join the euro - The single currency has many issues, the key one being that the European Central Bank’s one-size-fits-all monetary policy has failed - 27th July 2015
 * Forget Jeremy Corbyn – Labour should be seizing the chance to reinvent itself - Britain needs a modern Left-wing party that embraces consumerism and individual choice - 24th July 2015
 * Germany wants to treat Greece like a bust company - Angela Merkel wants to ring-fence tens of billions of euros worth of Greek assets as a security, which would be removed from the protection of national sovereignty and, in effect, controlled by creditors - 15th July 2015
 * George Osborne’s world view: a smaller state that intervenes more - The living wage is the Tory Clause Four moment – but it will destroy jobs and reduce opportunity - 10th July 2015
 * Our poverty rules are an insult to everyone – it’s time to rip them up - By using dodgy statistics to overstate their case, the Left has caused much of the public to ignore the real problems of deprivation - 26th June 2015
 * Britain could so nearly have suffered the same fate as Greece - Far from taking any pleasure in Athens’s travails, we should be counting our blessings - 19th June 2015
 * George Osborne's plan to make deficits illegal could change the rules of politics forever - The Chancellor is making an audacious push to shift the centre ground towards smaller governments, fewer taxes, and more Tory voters - 11th June 2015
 * Greece must stop hoping for a miracle - it needs to leave the euro - The best way for Greece to relearn the importance of economic orthodoxy is for it to test to destruction its own monetary policy, its own tax system and its own-self imposed rules - 3rd June 2015
 * If the unions think they can wreck this Tory victory, they will only destroy themselves - A battle is looming between the government and the unions, and there is only one winner - 14th May 2015
 * Those who rejoice at the woes of energy firms are making a big mistake - An unhealthy energy sector is bad for the British economy and, in the long term, for you - 29th April 2015
 * Britain, beware: we are on the brink of chasing top City firms away - The bank balance sheet levy and the EU’s pay rules are crippling some firms - 25th April 2015
 * Labour and the Tories are destined to fail unless they transform themselves completely - Tesco has learnt its lesson – the political giants must do likewise - 23rd April 2015
 * Britain’s productivity crisis: beware all the usual simplistic solutions - Too few economists seem prepared to accept that at least some of the UK’s productivity shortfall was a good thing - 23rd April 2015
 * Our services sector is the secret star helping us to pay our way in the world - Given the central importance of services to the future health of the UK economy, you might think that the political establishment would be seeking to support this industry -10th April 2015
 * Labour's plan to force companies to share their profits is a terrible idea - The real problem is that the Labour Party - and many others - still look upon profits with suspicion - 17th March 2015
 * Apple watch could call time on Swiss ascendancy in the high-end market - Apple Watch: company's dominance may help it to corner a market that has long belonged to the Swiss - 11th March 2015
 * Wake up, investors: this election will cause chaos in the financial markets - Stock markets are failing to price in correctly the consequences of the likely chaos come May - 6th March 2015
 * Barclays’ 30-year attempt at taking on Wall Street is coming to an end - The rise, fall, rebirth and final decline of Barclays’ investment bank is a tragic tale. It means that US and Chinese banks will eventually dominate the sector - 4th March 2015
 * Don’t panic: The sky won’t fall in if Greece decides to leave the euro - There will be no global rout nor all-out crash if Greece leaves the euro - it is too small to matter - 21st February 2015
 * The truth on pay - David Cameron is wrong to call on businesses to boost wages, and not just because it reflects a misguided view on how the free market works - 11th February 2015
 * Instead of paying down its debts, the world’s gone on another credit binge - Global debt has jumped by $57 trillion, or 17pc of global GDP, since the fourth quarter of 2007 - 7th February 2015
 * The game is up. It’s time for Greece to leave the eurozone and move on - The stand-off between Greece and the rest of the eurozone will escalate, neither side will blink and the country will default - 30th January 2015
 * Switzerland was once a safe haven. That is no longer true today - There is a big lesson in the Swiss National Bank's decision to ditch the euro-franc peg - central banks are arbitrary and capricious - 16th January 2015
 * Why we can now be sure that interest rates won’t go up this year - The Government clearly would like to keep interest rates low as possible for as long as possible, even though many of its supporters are net savers who are losing out - 11th January 2015
 * Russia’s economic crisis could easily end in yet another sovereign default - Vladimir Putin's Russia is stuck between a rock and a hard place and its economy could be pushed into a recession deeper than the one seen in 1998 - 18th December 2014
 * It’s time for Osborne to explain why lower taxes are so good for growth - Changing tax rates also has an effect on incentives to work, invest, consume and transact which need to be taken into effect when setting policy and budgeting - 3rd December 2014
 * Osborne is right to attack Labour’s deficit plan – but his ruse is too political - Labour has clearly reverted to being a 1980s-style party of anti-capitalist class warriors obsessed with taxing and regulating everything that moves - 27th November 2014
 * Spectre of political chaos at home and in the EU is now economy’s top threat - We should feel optimistic about the current direction of the British economy -- with a few caveats, that is - 22nd November 2014
 * It’s time to end our mad fixation with bankers’ pay - The repeated attacks on the banking industry are damaging a sector of vital importance to the UK economy - 17th November 2014
 * Extra holiday pay sounds good but the economy will pay a terrible price - New ruling will undoubtedly make life even more difficult for hundreds of thousands of small businesses - some are bound to go bust - 6th November 2014
 * Forget HS2 or HS3, we need to get back to basics to fix our infrastructure - The answer to the UK's infrastructure problems is to change the rules and make it easier for the private sector to get involved - 28th October 2014
 * Don’t bash the UK’s economic recovery - we are still doing well - In the second quarter we expanded faster than all G7 nations bar the US, and a similar pattern is likely in the third quarter - 26th October 2014
 * We are now a giant step closer to debunking the myth of 'too big to fail’ - It should no be possible to resolve any large UK-based institution without needing a taxpayer bailout - 24th October 2014
 * It is truly shocking that our already huge budget deficit is still growing - The public finances are an Achilles’ Heel that could derail the Tories - 22nd October 2014
 * Greece’s latest woes signal next stage of the eurozone crisis - Greece’s sudden relapse has left many investors running for the hills - 17th October 2014
 * Politicians and regulators to blame for market madness - The FTSE 100 and Dow Jones are falling, but the real turmoil can be found in bond markets - 17th October 2014
 * The best cure for inequality is an ownership society - There is far too much emphasis on inequality as a concept in the British political debate. We should focus on making sure that a rising tide lifts all boats and improving opportunities for the poorest. - 16th October 2014
 * Solar energy and shale are the future, not costly nuclear power plants - The UK needs to focus on areas that don’t require a subsidy: shale and solar energy - 9th October 2014
 * Clear blue water opens up between Osborne and Labour on economy - Chancellor George Osborne has set out policies that place the Tories and Labour the furthest apart they have been for 20 years - 30th September 2014
 * It’s time for the Tories to demonstrate that they support British business - Business leaders are crying out for a coherent, strong and unapologetic pro-growth manifesto from the Tories. - 26th September 2014
 * Why Labour’s Mansion Tax shows that it has lost touch with financial reality - The fact that the Mansion Tax is so badly designed and illogical suggests that it would soon mutate into a full-blown, French-style wealth tax - 25th September 2014
 * Britain’s flexible labour market has saved us - it would be mad to ruin it - Labour could destroy the economy’s job-creating potential by imposing eurozone-style red tape on the jobs market - 19th September 2014
 * Our tax system is more broken than we thought - We need to tear it up and start again but for that we will need some brave and far-sighted volunteers in Westminster - 17th September 2014
 * Investors, be warned: Scottish independence would be highly contagious - The Catalans and Basques will be watching carefully; and further afield, separatists in Flanders, northern Italy and elsewhere will be jumping up and down with joy if Scotland votes for independence - 10th September 2014
 * Draghi’s feeble attempt to save the eurozone is bound to fail - Cutting interest rates by 0.1pc will have virtually no impact on the eurozone economy at all - 5th September 2014
 * [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11073744/Everything-we-thought-we-knew-about-the-economy-was-wrong.htm

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