Supermarket price caps? Rachel Reeves is truly panicking Opinion Rachel Reeves's impulse to meddle in supermarket pricing shows she is not seriously interested in growth at all, writes Eliot Wilson.
When politics Trump prices, markets are no longer free Opinion In any other context, a system where a single individual can move markets so abruptly would raise serious questions about resilience and fairness. With Donald Trump, it is simply accepted, says Tim Focas The most striking thing about this week’s oil market moves is not that traders placed half a billion dollars of bets ahead [...]
International Women’s Day: Free markets are not the enemy of feminism Opinion History tells that if there’s one thing women should fear, it’s not capitalism, it’s the collective, says Victoria Bateman Leftist global histories tell the same story when it comes to women. They present us with a happy world in which women were revered and rewarded by their communities until the advent of capitalism ended this [...]
Margaret Thatcher would never have made a pact with Farage October 13, 2025 On the 100th birthday of Margaret Thatcher, Alys Denby reflects on what lessons she’s learned from the Iron Lady, and why her legacy remains relevant today… My mother tells me that when I was about three, I asked her if a woman could be a doctor. She replied: “darling, a woman is Prime Minister!”. It [...]
The space economy will not succeed without private ownership September 26, 2025 A space economy based on legal conditions that ban private property – like those of North Korea – will never flourish, says Rainer Zitelmann After the Moon Landing of 1969, manned space travel stagnated for over half a century. The space shuttle was far too expensive and never lived up to expectations. It was only [...]
Kemi is right: markets not ministers should determine energy policy September 2, 2025 The UK’s policy of using massive subsidies to support politically-favored green technologies has resulted in some of the highest energy prices in the developed world, and the government should instead foster a competitive, technology-neutral market to drive down costs and encourage innovation, says Matthew Bowles “We are in the absurd situation where our country is [...]
The Debate: Should businesses put purpose above profit? April 16, 2025 It's capitalism's age-old question, should businesses prioritise purpose over profit? Two writers hash it out in this week's Debate.
What does the world really think about freedom? January 22, 2025 On a round-the-world trip, Rainer Zitelmann conducted the most extensive ever survey of global attitudes to capitalism and the market economy. Over the coming weeks he’ll be sharing his insights with Morning Wire Many people dream of travelling the world. Well, from April 2022 to December 2023, I went on a round-the-world trip that took [...]
Britain needs to rediscover the revolutionary spirit of Thatcher June 4, 2024 So much of what Thatcher achieved is now taken for granted, but the free market ideas and reforming zeal she embodied are needed now more than ever, says Emma Revell Margaret Thatcher is, to put it mildly, a divisive figure. Even a decade after her death and more than 30 years after she left Downing [...]