by Dan Mitchell | Sep 24, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I strongly supported Brexit in part because I wanted the United Kingdom to have both the leeway and the incentive to adopt pro-market policies. Imagine my disappointment, then, when subsequent Conservative Prime Ministers did nothing...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 20, 2022 | Blogs, Energy
I don’t like big-government Republicans in the United States, so it naturally follows that I don’t like big-government Tories in the United Kingdom. Indeed, I wrote just a few days ago about the new leadership race for the Conservative...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 17, 2022 | Blogs, Europe
I was a big fan of Brexit (the United Kingdom voting to leave the European Union), but I’m very disappointed about the subsequent failure to create “Singapore-on-Thames.” The above clip was my “under-reported story of the week,” as part of the most-recent...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 27, 2022 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
To begin Part III of this series (here’s Part I and Part II), let’s dig into the archives for this video I narrated back in 2007. At the risk of patting myself on the back, all of the points hold up very well. Indeed, the past 15 years have produced more evidence that...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 25, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs
I’m in the United Kingdom for the Free Market Road Show and had planned on writing today about the awful economic policies of Boris Johnson, the supposedly Conservative Prime Minister. Yes, he produced an acceptable Brexit, but otherwise...
