In this country, big government IT projects have become a bit of a joke – albeit a sick one given the cost to taxpayers. The seeming inability of ministers and civil servants to commission IT systems with any degree of competence was one of the reasons why Labour failed in its attempt to impose ID […]
Whether one prefers ‘Plan A’ or ‘Plan B’, we’re all agreed that the goal of economic policy is economic growth. Well, everyone except the crustier kind of environmentalist who sees it as a deadly threat to the planet. However, even they must see growth as the default state of industrialised economies, otherwise they wouldn’t be so […]