Articles by Alex Wild

The great green energy tax swindle
It seems that MPs don’t mind pricing poorer people out of heating their homes so rich people in London can feel good about saving the planet
- 5 July 2013Scrap the Beer Duty Escalator
There are many radical reforms which should be announced to fix Britain’s broken tax system next month. Scrapping the despised and damaging beer duty escalator should be right up there
- 28 February 2013The farce of union pilgrims
The Government’s own estimates indicate that if the amount of public sector facility time was reduced to levels in line with the private sector, 2,172 staff could return to work and actually do the jobs taxpayers are paying them to do. This is hardly an unreasonable request
- 31 October 2012