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Employment Law in the 21st Century: Getting the Balance Right
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Employment law has become a controversial subject in recent times, following the passage of Labour’s Employment Rights Act of 2025 and its impact on businesses, particularly small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). It has been criticised for including provisions that amount to a stealth tax on workers. I have three suggestions that might tackle this problem. The Employment Rights Act 2025 at a glance The Employment Rights Act 2025 is the initial phase of the Labour Government’s Plan to ‘Make Work Pay’. The bill was introduced in the House of Commons on 10 October 2024 and received Royal Assent on…
A Liberal Approach to Our Broken Energy Policies: Fantasy vs. Reality of Net Zero 2050
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Ever since the Climate Change Act 2008 was first passed, we have seen an ideological obsession with Net Zero 2050 to the detriment of both the public purse and the supply of our energy. I contend that the obsession with Net Zero at any cost, has had a severe impact on both our economy and our source of energy and I will spell out the course of action that should have been taken over the last twenty years or so. This is a strategy we can still pivot towards as we move towards to 2050. Net Zero – an unhealthy…
A Liberal Approach to Solving the Housing Crisis: A Free‑Market Solution
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The housing crisis in the UK has become characterised by a severe shortage of supply, record homelessness and soaring rents. Consecutive governments (both Labour and Conservative) have failed to solve many of the issues due to a lack of concerted effort to analyse beyond the headline issues and come up with solutions which favour the free market – this is precisely what aim to do in this article. I will be focusing on three of these deeper issues: Planning restrictions Planning restrictions severely constrain housing supply, creating structural deficits that drive up property prices. In the UK, restrictive land designations…
A Track Less Discovered: A Novel Approach to Railways in the 21st Century
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The Labour Government’s latest attempt at reforming railways in Britain by bringing them back into public ownership, without actually spelling out in detail how this will work in relation to the Great British Railways project, suggests a lack of imagination on the part of the government. It’s time we moved beyond the complication of having a rail franchising system operating within a state-owned railway structure. Britain can and should be more ambitious and therefore opt instead for ‘Open Access Rail’ throughout the system. The bankrupt Rail Franchising System Ever since the inception of rail privatisation in 1996 under John Major’s…
A Liberal Approach to the State: A Twenty‑First Century Concept of the State’s Role
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Historically, liberals viewed the state with caution and perhaps even indifference. Classical Liberals (like me), argued for a state which is restricted by a codified constitution, separation of powers and respect for the rule of law. Ultimately, the state is there to serve the interest of individuals, not to control them. However, this concept of the state is restricted to a somewhat archaic way of thinking that emerged out of the enlightenment period of the 17th and 18th century, most notably from thinkers such as John Locke. However, over three hundred years later and with the incredible advancement of technology…
