Contributions

The lesson of the Titanic was not “build bigger ships.” It was “learn to navigate.” Yet our politics today is all about tonnage and paintwork, with grand launches lacking in consistent advocacy, while the ice drifts ever closer.

With previous tax rises raising less than the Government had hoped, and the exodus of wealth creators gathering pace, it is clear that our current tax and spend model is entirely unsustainable, especially in the face of growing demographic pressures.

There is a peculiar British political habit, perhaps best described as a national affliction, of turning policy into sacrament.