2+ week, 5+ day ago   (491+ words) The Spectator Australia Andy Burnham has discovered the cost of nationalisation The buses would run on time. The trains would be cheaper. And perhaps most of all, the water companies would start providing a far better service. Andy Burnham was…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (725+ words) The Spectator Australia Mike Ashley is the hero of the British high street Adura, a new name to most of us, turns out to be a joint venture between Shell and the Norwegian state energy giant Equinor. It stands ready…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (254+ words) This week, Andy Burnham, in an article about how much he loves buses, declared that he will lead a ‘cost of living government’. Yet costs are going up, as confirmed by figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS),…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (216+ words) There is an alternative source of figures on how many people are working as employees and self-employed: HMRC’s tax records. Those figures (and various combinations of them) are published by the ONS or were combined by the report’s authors according…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (416+ words) Suddenly, superannuation has become a hot-button issue in Australia. Germany was the first modern state to introduce old-age pensions. That was in 1889 when Bismarck required all employees to contribute to funding their retirement incomes. Australia and Britain introduced means-tested but…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (519+ words) Burnham’s jobs apocalypse The Spectator Australia Is the Burnham bounce about to fizzle out? This morning has seen the first shaky set of economic figures since his ascension to Mayor of Great Britain. Figures released by the Office for National…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (273+ words) Another week, another subsidy for renewable energy and greenhouse gas abatement. Recently, Climate Change and Energy Minister Bowen added an extension of the subsidy to rooftop solar installations to factories and farms and foreshadowed an intensification of the cost of…...