From Mark Easton's blog at the BBC : What proportion of Britain do you reckon is built on? By that I mean covered by buildings, roads,...

When you complain that the Home-Owner-Ists deliberately pushed up house prices in the UK over the last ten or twenty years, their favourite ...

Our policy is to shift from taxing incomes and output to taxing the rental value of land. We all know that the Home-Owner-Ists always wail o...

If you think it's hard to get a foot on the career ladder here in Blighty, spare a thought for your Spanish and Greek cousins.  Under 2...

In their May 2012 house price report , they include a couple of interesting charts. i) The chart at the bottom of page 1 shows that since ...

Yesterday's post explained why it made sense to replace the overlapping systems of means-tested benefits, contributory benefits and subs...

1. People clearly have different levels of income and assets and the welfare system is an attempt to redistribute this somewhat, or to allev...