Harry Fone: Parish councils can waste money too

Harry Fone: Parish councils can waste money too

Harry Fone is the Grassroots Campaign Manager for the TaxPayers’ Alliance. The TaxPayers’ Alliance is well-known for scrutinising spending in the higher tiers of local government such as unitary, county, and city councils. However, over the past few weeks my inbox has been inundated with emails from concerned ratepayers detailing the largesse of their parish…

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Rep. Ted Budd Fights to Preserve 1776 Commission

The fight to preserve America’s history continued Monday as Rep. Ted Budd announced legislation to preserve the 1776 Commission.  One of President Joe Biden’s first executive actions was to disband the 18-member commission, which was assembled by former President Donald Trump at the end of last year. The commission was created to further an understanding…

Travel and the virus. Ministers face some of the hardest decisions yet as they plot UK’s next course.

Travel and the virus. Ministers face some of the hardest decisions yet as they plot UK’s next course.

Tomorrow, the Government faces an extraordinarily difficult decision: what does it do about international arrivals, given the increasing threat of new Coronavirus strains? Since the “UK” and “South Africa” variants were discovered, ministers are understandably fearful about other mutations getting into the country, which could undermine progress – and, even worse, prove resistant to the…

James Heywood: A GBP20 blanket uplift in Universal Credit would miss an opportunity for better targeted change

James Heywood: A GBP20 blanket uplift in Universal Credit would miss an opportunity for better targeted change

James Heywood is the Head of Welfare and Opportunity at the Centre for Policy Studies. One of the iron laws of politics is that it is very easy to give things away and extremely difficult to take them back again. That can prove a particular problem when a government has had to put in place…