Allister Heath



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 * Yes, some people really struggle, but inequality isn’t the problem  - 28th July 2016
 * Britain needs a 'can-do' attitude revolution, with solutions rather than whining - There are two nations in Britain today, but they are not quite the ones that Benjamin Disraeli had in mind - 21st July 2016
 * Forget protectionism: May is right not to veto ARM’s foreign takeover - 19th July 2016
 * Theresa May has proved she is serious about Brexit. Here's what she must do to deliver - It also doesn’t matter that our new Prime Minister is not especially ideological; in fact, in the present circumstances this may well help her - 14th July 2016
 * Theresa May's win has steadied the markets. Now is our chance to pluck the fruits of Brexit - 12th July 2016
 * Goldman Sachs' odd decision to hire Barroso is another sign that the bank needs a reality check - Hilarious, brilliant or preposterous: it’s hard to know exactly in which category Goldman Sach’s latest hiring falls - 9th July 2016
 * Britain is living through the best of times and the worst of times - 8th July 2016
 * My 10-point plan to kick-start the economy after the referendum - 7th July 2016
 * Radical change is never without risk. But I truly believe that history will thank us for Brexit - No, my dear Remainer friends, I don’t have buyer’s remorse. I’m grateful to you for asking so nicely. I’m still just as elated and moved, one week on, by the public’s epoch-defining, awe-inspiring decision to defy the establishment - 30th June 2016
 * The Tesco zombie has lurched back to life - 24th June 2016
 * A last-minute plea: vote Leave and help change the course of history - 23rd June 2016
 * Behold, the most foolish tax of them all - 18th June 2016
 * Why Britain’s shopping spree will come at a cost - 17th June 2016
 * It will all end in tears for the first kamikaze chancellor in history - 15th June 2016
 * Why big business got it wrong over Brexit - 11th June
 * We will still trade freely with the EU if we vote Leave - 10th June
 * Keep calm and ooze compassion: Leave must seize the moral high ground - 9th June 2016
 * Why banks won’t leave if we vote for Brexit - You can cry wolf once, twice or perhaps even three times. At some point, however, your bluff will be called, and everybody will ignore you. That, tragically, is the City’s fate - 4th June 2016
 * There is no safety inside the arrogant, imperial, and dangerously unstable EU - We may not always like it, but one of the intractable realities of the human condition is that nothing ever stays the same - 2nd June 2016
 * Brexit will make us richer. That's why Leave could still win - 26th May 2016
 * have a century of failure behind them. No wonder they back Remain now'' - Time and time again, the majority of economists make spectacularly wrong calls, and it is a small, despised minority that gets it right - 19th May
 * The City will regret falling out with its real friends over Brexit - 17th May 2016
 * Remainers are moving heaven and earth – but not the polls - 12th May
 * It's time to don the tin hats, Britain: the economy is grinding to a halt - 7th May 2016
 * Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton: America now faces a truly appalling choice - It is remarkable how a country that is so good at business, science, the arts and just about everything else can be so bad at politics - 5th May 2016
 * EU red tape is suffocating UK economy and Brexit can set us free - For those business people who believe both in remaining in the EU and in free markets, these are difficult times - 30th April 2016
 * The City must urgently tackle its pay crisis or else the Government will step in - 30th April 2016
 * Only Brexit can force the Tories to abandon fear and win young hearts - The Conservative Party has allowed a vacuum to develop which for young people has been filled by the Corbynite Left - 28th April 2016
 * Beware state capitalism: it’s the enemy of real markets - 26th April 2016
 * We’re so used to EU rule that we’ve forgotten how to do it for ourselves - Many Remain intellectuals genuinely view the EU as a great safety net, an irreplaceable device that prevents economic disintegration - 21st April 2016
 * The Treasury's 'dodgy dossier' on Brexit is beneath contempt - 18th April
 * There's always an excuse to justify suspending free trade - Tata is the latest - 2nd April 2016
 * It may be heart-breaking, but there must be no bail-out for Port Talbot - Doing capitalism well is akin to riding a bike. You can’t pedal too slowly or you will fall off; you can’t dart ahead too quickly or you will crash - 31st March 2016
 * George Osborne is reaping a political whirlwind of his own creation - 24th March 2016
 * The Budget’s bottom line: taxes will rise and rise again - Does anybody believe that the economy will grow at almost exactly the same rate every year until 2019? - 18th March 2016
 * Expect an anti-Brexit Budget that achieves little - 15th March 2016
 * Brexit could save Europe from catastrophe - It is those who love Europe, its diversity, its history and its humanity who should be the most enthusiastic about Brexit - 10th March 2016
 * The fate of John Longworth shows business still doesn't get politics - There are issues that divide a country so deeply that the best outcome is for large, stock market-listed businesses and industry groups to take no side, while allowing individual employees to speak out as they wish - 8th March 2016
 * It's time for George Osborne to take an axe to high tax - 5th March 2016
 * The EU Inners will regret turning Project Fear into Project White Flag - By depicting the UK Government as powerless, they are encouraging a challenge to its authority - 3rd March 2016
 * EU elites wrongly believe they have perfected government, so we should leave - Brussels believes in top-down management by the few. As we face unprecedented global problems, that model is proving dangerously misguided - 24th February 2016
 * Don’t use this crisis to ban cash and banknotes - Abolishing cash would come with terrible side-effects - including the death of privacy - 12th February 2016
 * The world can't afford another crash – it could destroy capitalism - A new economic crisis would trigger a political backlash in Britain, Europe and the United States which could drag us all down into poverty - 11th February 2016
 * Why this establishment stitch-up could yet help the Eurosceptic cause - Paradoxically, our elites’ love of free trade would see Britain thriving outside of the European Union - 4th February 2016
 * Scrap the tax on profits – but don’t tax turnover - We should just tax cash distributions to investors and creditors when they leave the company – dividends, share buybacks and interest – as we tax distributions to employees - 3rd February 2016
 * Why there is no single business view on Brexit - It's clear that swathes of the business leaders who currently tell pollsters that they are pro-EU would actually rather belong to a trading arrangement instead - 26th January 2016
 * Memo to the City: focus on free trade, not on politics - There is a lot of self-interest on show. Many financial firms want to be on-side with the UK government, which of course has the power to regulate or tax them - 23rd January 2016
 * No self-respecting politician could remain in Corbyn’s shadow cabinet - The Labour 'heroes’ who resigned showed a courage sadly lacking in many of their colleagues - 8th January 2016
 * The world's political and economic order is stronger than it looks - Stefan Zweig tells us in The World of Yesterday what it feels like when the wheels really do come off the global system - 1st January 2016
 * 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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