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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…
Why Game Theory Is Breaking Britain – but Could Also Save It
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Game Theory examines when and why people choose to cooperate or compete. Its central insight is that our decisions are shaped not only by what we want, but by what we expect others to do. Well known game theory scenarios include the Prisoner’s dilemma, the Cold War, and on a simpler scale, even Rock, Paper, Scissors. An important aspect of Game Theory relates to whether and why we choose to cooperate or compete. Researchers found that the success of either strategy is dependent on how others in the system behave, and that people instinctively know this. Our decision-making routinely includes…
What Starmer Knew, and When
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The Mandelson–Epstein connection was public knowledge long before the 2024 election. The question of how the Prime Minister could claim ignorance deserves scrutiny. Keir Starmer’s claim that he was unaware of the depth of Peter Mandelson’s relationship with convicted child sex offender and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein when he appointed him British Ambassador to the United States in December 2024, at best occupies shaky ground. The evidence that Mandelson posed a serious reputational and security risk was not hidden in classified files. Much of it was sitting in plain sight, reported by national broadcasters and newspapers, and filed in open US…
The Glass House Secretary General – George of the Bungle
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George Robertson’s attack on the Starmer government ignores the seeds sown during his own tenure, or the 28-year trend that all parties have followed. When Lord George Robertson of Port Ellen took to the podium in Salisbury earlier this month to deliver the Edward Heath Annual Lecture, he did so with the moral authority of a man who had served as Secretary of State for Defence, who had led NATO for four years, and who had personally authored the current government’s Strategic Defence Review. His language was unsparing. Britain, he declared, was “underprepared, underinsured, under attack and not safe.” The…
A Plan for Young People
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In this I want to propose an approach to two issues – youth unemployment and pensions for younger people. Youth unemployment has recently hit the news. As of the final quarter of 2025, the unemployment rate for 16-24-year-olds stands at 16.1%, the highest in a decade and now exceeding the EU average of 14.7%. Total UK unemployment is at 5.2%, a five-year high, but young people are disproportionately affected, with entry-level hiring stalling amid higher payroll costs from the 2025 National Insurance (NI) hike to 15% and minimum wage increases. Meanwhile given the UK’s declining birth rate, England and Wales…
This Stupid Tax Rule is Harming the Country and Needs to Go
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The Labour Government from 1997 to 2010 did many harmful things to the tax system. Although Gordon Brown when Chancellor of the Exchequer had a stellar reputation with much of the media, I always considered him a poor Chancellor. The reason is that he kept endlessly tinkering with the tax rules by introducing stealth taxes that he hoped people would not notice, but which had harmful side effects. However, blame for possibly the worst such stealth tax must be shared between Gordon Brown as Prime Minister and the late Alistair Darling who was the Chancellor of the Exchequer who announced…
