Allister Heath



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 * Budget 2014: five themes George Osborne should focus on - Chancellor George Osborne needs to be even more explicit about where he stands to take back the inititative from Labour - 18th March 2014
 * What do you stand for, George Osborne – and what’s your vision for Britain? - The Chancellor must use his Budget speech to reconnect with disillusioned voters - 15th March 2014
 * Labour's manifesto could truly damage our economy - If the financial sector shrinks, the rest of the economy will have to be taxed even more heavily - 12th March 2014
 * Budget 2014: Ten policies George Osborne should announce - The Chancellor needs to show that he is on taxpayers’ side. Nobody should have to pay more than 50pc of their income in tax in any one year - 5th March 2014
 * OK, we have a cost of living crisis - but life is so much better now - To most people, the UK’s 6pc or so national pay cut to date remains a price worth paying for having access to the convenience, goods, services and jobs delivered by the economy of 2014 - 26th February 2014
 * An independent Scotland risks becoming eurozone mark 2 - The SNP is a muddled, confused blend of big state socialists, nationalists, populists and the odd genuine capitalist that will make a disastrous hash of it all - 19th February 2014
 * Business needs to fight back against these unfair attacks from politicians - To many wealth creators and captains of industry, it feels as if the UK is slowly falling out of love with business, and that the climate will worsen considerably over the next few years with yet more, usually irrational, government intervention - 12th February 2014
 * Our government system is broken and requires revolutionary change - Politics should be much more like business.The PM should be like a CEO; ministers like divisional MDs - 5th February 2014
 * Imagine the explosion of growth if we got serious about tax-cutting - Those on the lowest incomes should pay no tax at at all; while the hard-pressed middle class should face a flat tax - 29th January 2014
 * It’s time to reject crony capitalism and embrace the real thing - Sir Richard Branson and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg boost economic growth, increase employment, help develop poor economies and lift living standards, and their vast wealth is their just reward - 22nd January 2014
 * Keep Scotland in the UK - and give all the nations much more power - The central government should control defence, foreign policy, trade relations, monetary policy and financial regulation. Everything else should be decentralised - 14th January 2014
 * George Osborne's plan to shrink the state is a disaster for Britain - it doesn't go far enough - Chancellor George Osborne has decided to focus all of his attentions on one relatively small area of public spending – welfare for those of working age – and leave much of the rest untouched - 7th January 2014
 * Airport expansion is essential if flying is to remain affordable to all - It is vitally important that the democratisation of flying – a truly great social revolution – is kept on track, and for that London and the south of the country will need one more runway - 19th December 2013
 * Pay rises are making a comeback - here's how we make sure they stay - The first, and most important, reason for falling pay is that Britain is a poorer country than it used to be - 11th December 2013
 * Autumn Statement 2013: George Osborne must never forget he is the guardian of our taxes, not their rightful owner - At this week's Autumn Statement, Chancellor George Osborne must make it clear that he sees high taxes as a temporary, necessary evil but then bring them down - 4th December 2013
 * The state cannot step in to legislate on everything that assails our economy - The simple, tragic truth is that our political elites, with a handful of courageous exceptions, have turned decisively against the market economy - 27th November 2013
 * High-impact tax cuts may just save Coalition from the exit come the election - It is time for Osborne to turn to radical tax cuts, the last remaining unused but realistic weapon in the Tory armoury - 20th November 2013
 * Companies could improve our schools - and drive the bad ones out of business - The Government should be a regulator that steps in if there are abuses and pay the companies a fee for every child they educate - 12th November 2013
 * My plan to save big business and bring back public trust - Companies must start listening to a public who feel taken for granted, and undergo a cultural revolution - 5th November 2013
 * The world has never had it so good - thanks partly to capitalism - We live in largely peaceful times, with better access to medicine and education - the world is easily in the best place it’s ever been - 29th October 2013
 * We need to build more homes - just don't make them social housing - Most of what we think we know about Britain’s housing market is plain wrong - 23rd October 2013
 * There's only one answer to the cost of living crisis: a bonfire of the taxes - Britain desperately needs a significant downsizing of the size of the state, and the Government must eliminate subsidies for those who don't need them - 15th October 2013
 * Entrepreneurs need to start up a pressure group fighting for their interests - If you are a doctor, an accountant, a farmer or a teacher, there are pressure groups, professional bodies and trade unions that speak out on your behalf - 9th October 2013
 * The Right needs to start selling capitalism to the masses before it's too late - There is really just one question in political economy: do we want a bigger state, with a more activist government, or do we want a smaller one, with market forces allowed greater sway? Everything else is mere detail - 2nd October 2013
 * Ed Miliband has shown he knows nothing about business or the economy - So that was it, then. The Labour Party’s 20-year attempt at reconciling left-wing politics with the market economy, private business and individual aspiration is now over - 25th September 2013
 * The economy must work for the many not for the few - With the economy roaring back to life, many in business and Westminster expect the politics of envy, perhaps the greatest threat to Britain’s long-term prosperity, gradually to lose its potency. Yet such optimism is dangerously deluded - 18th September 2013
 * Why the left will never be right in the next big battle over living costs - Economists will continue to squabble about the effects of austerity on growth until the end of time, but British politics has finally moved on, regardless of Ed Miliband’s rather pathetic rear-guard efforts on Tuesday - 11th September 2013
 * Syria needs liberal capitalism, not missiles - Revolutions, wars and the emergence of totalitarian movements are rarely just about grand ideals, political philosophy or theological disputes - 3rd September 2013
 * The rest of the UK needs to copy London's capitalist culture - Until recently, Britain’s recovery appeared to have been mostly confined to London and its commuter belt. No longer. Growth is beginning to spread to the rest of the country; we are seeing, at last, something almost akin to a One Nation recovery - 14th August 2013
 * Mark Carney is about to make his first mistake - not raising interest rates - It is time for the Bank of England to think the unthinkable and to hike interest rates - 7th August 2013
 * Britain is playing catch-up to the US manufacturing boom - America, like Britain, is not having an easy recovery - 31st July 2013
 * If you think Britain is on its way back to prosperity, think again, it's a mirage - It is one of the many wonders of our Royal Family that its babies are perfectly, almost eerily, timed with the economic cycle - 24th July 2013
 * An online sales tax would hit the poorest shoppers hardest - As so often is the case, it was Adam Smith who got it right, even though he was writing in 1776, long before anybody could possibly have imagined the rise of the digital economy - 17th July 2013
 * Schools are failing our children simply because they are technophobes - Few industries have been left unscathed by the digital revolution - 10th July 2013
 * Britain's baby boom will affect our economy more than anything Mark Carney does - Over time, babies matter far more to an economy than even the cleverest of central bankers. The wealth of nations is determined by how many workers they host, and how productive their citizens are - 3rd July 2013
 * We need a much smaller state, not an even bigger one - bring on the cuts - Something is rotten in the state of Britain, but those who believe the problem is that the Government isn’t spending enough of our money have got it all wrong - 19th June 2013
 * Rent controls are madness, we need to build more homes - An Englishman’s home is his castle, but only if he can still afford one - 12th June 2013
 * There’s a worse crisis on the way unless we get serious about tackling debt - For all of the talk of austerity, Britain is still drowning in debt, private as well as public - 5th June 2013
 * Nigel Farage's biggest problem is Ukip doesn't do details - For a populist party, Ukip is surprisingly free of the anti-capitalist pitchfork tendency that usually defines protest movements - 22nd May 2013
 * George Osborne is reinflating house prices - and we couldn't be happier - Despite the appalling weather in most parts of Britain, something remarkable has started to happen to our national mood - 15th May 2013
 * 3D printing: the new, bottom-up industrial revolution - When Joseph Schumpeter described capitalism as a process of creative destruction more than 70 years ago, he couldn’t have conceived of the miracle that is 3D printing - 7th May 2013
 * HS2 is already obsolete, David Cameron should be preparing the UK for self-driving cars - Anybody who still believes high-speed rail is the answer to our transport problems, rather than an unaffordably grandiose throwback to a bygone era, needs to take a trip to Silicon Valley - 1st May 2013
 * Keynesians are wrong, because George Osborne's cuts are actually very modest - Sometimes, doing the right thing requires sticking your fingers in your ears, singing ting-a-ling and blocking out the shrieks from those around you who have lost their heads - 24th April 2013
 * Young go-getters will drag us out of stagnation - One Thatcherite change that Gordon Brown fortunately failed to reverse is the decline in collectivist attitudes - 21st April 2013
 * The best way to get people to care about our economy is to give them a stake in it - One of Margaret Thatcher’s greatest legacies was to bridge the divide between capital and labour - 17th April
 * To blame Margaret Thatcher for today's problems is to misunderstand history - Given that it is now 23 years since she left office, it is absurd for Lady Thatcher’s opponents to still be blaming her for Britain’s economic woes - 10th April 2013
 * Tell youngsters the truth: the UK needs you to work not go to university - There is little that is more likely to lead to ruined lives than groupthink in politics, especially when it is imposed by a well-meaning, over-enthusiastic Establishment convinced that it is doing the right thing - 3rd April 2013
 * George Osborne's aspiration nation is a sham - and stamp duty proves it - If you want to understand why Britain’s middle classes feel so over-taxed, look no further than stamp duty, a horrendously counter-productive levy which has helped torpedo the housing market - 26th March 2013
 * Budget 2013: Will George Osborne make his mark or show himself as unambitious? - Previous Chancellors tended to have well-defined economic views: it was easy to know what Gordon Brown, Lord Lawson or Lord Lamont stood for - 21st March 2013
 * George Osborne needs shock-and-awe tax cuts to avert a 1970s-style disaster - It was Mark Twain who put it best when he argued that, while history doesn't repeat itself, it does rhyme - 12th March 2013
 * Hard-pressed aspiring classes need more optimism from George Osborne - It is time for a dramatic change of approach from George Osborne. He needs a fresh message, conveyed in a new language: the priority must now be to reduce tax and spending to boost growth, not to "balance the books" - 5th March 2013
 * My 10-point plan to reboot Britain - This is George Osborne’s last opportunity. Unless he takes drastic action at next month’s Budget, with shock and awe policies to jolt the private sector back into action, he stands no chance of rebooting Britain’s crippled, downgraded economy - 26th February 2013



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