Good news on UK jobs, but we must ditch EU energy policy
There is widespread praise for Britain's economic success, especially in job creation, which puts Euroland to shame. But the UK needs to distance itself from the job destroying dear energy policies of the EU if it wants to keep progressing
- 18 April 2015
Obama's dismal, Europe-style jobs legacy
The key to prosperity is small government and free markets. To the extent the U.S. becomes more like France and less like Hong Kong, it is doomed to get anemic economic performance
- 6 February 2014
Dealing with Britain's economic success
Clearly the economy has excelled compared to the Bank of England's forecasts, which assumed it would take longer for unemployment to fall this far. John Redwood MP explains what's going on
- 24 January 2014
Eurozone jobless rate exceeds OECD average
The eurozone continues to fall behind its international counterparts in tackling unemployment
- 9 July 2013
Eurozone jobless rate at record high
Eurostat said that the eurozone jobless rate had risen to 12.1 percent, or 19.2 million people
- 1 July 2013
The humility of David Blanchflower
Faced with the comical failure of a 2009 prediction, David Blanchflower set out to fashion a new statistic which would prove that he had, in fact, been correct. It didn’t
- 5 March 2013
Repeating the same mistakes in the financial crisis
The solution to our financial woes includes cleaning our exhausted system and replacing it with technology and high value-added industries. Exactly what we're not doing
- 28 January 2013
Euro turning Greece and Spain into failed states
Jobless rates in Spain and Greece have reached staggering proportions. And as long as these countries retain the euro, the prospects of recovery are slim
- 9 January 2013
The European Union is costing us jobs
British jobs are at risk with the EU’s desire to wipe out national borders in order to keep the EU’s life support system ticking over
- 1 November 2012
PMQs: Bloodbath edition
With the millstone of Mitchell round Cameron’s neck, Ed should have walked PMQs today - instead, he only just edged it, writes our UK Political Editor Harry Cole
- 17 October 2012
The Nobel Prize Committee should resign
The decision to give the prize to the EU also undermines the memories and achievements of previous winners such as Martin Luther King, Liu Xiaobo and Aung San Suu Kyi.
- 12 October 2012
PMQs: A pointless win for the PM
Cameron got one over an off-form Miliband this week but it was to no avail in the light of events, dear boy writes Harry Cole
- 12 September 2012
Open borders immigration is a key to growth
Open borders immigration would be a boost not only for the UK but the entire global economy
- 7 September 2012
Beyond euroscepticism: Time for the alternative
Critics of the flawed euro project have been vindicated but gloating is premature. They need to set out their own vision
- 31 August 2012
The slide into corporatism
Douglas Carswell MP highlights the pressure on ministers to be seen to be doing 'something' as a factor in the undesirable slide to corporatism
- 21 November 2011
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