british economy | The Property Chronicle

Time to dispel the Green Belt myths and get Britain building

by Ilana Cantor | Jul 10, 2018 | The Economist

If the Government ever wants to solve the housing crisis, they need to step up and dispel the Green Belt myth that has become so entrenched within the British psyche. The romanticised notion of a “green and pleasant land” is strangling our cities and preventing the...

Switzerland offers some valuable lessons for Brexit

by Pieter Cleppe | May 31, 2018 | Political Insider

It’s hard to ignore Switzerland’s experience when looking at Brexit. Here we have another country that isn’t a member of the European Union, the single market or a customs union. It’s also a country that trades heavily with the EU. And it has an arrangement that...

A proposal to fix welfare and fight intergenerational unfairness

by Diego Zuluaga | May 29, 2018 | The Economist

The Resolution Foundation recently proposed to introduce a “citizen’s inheritance” of £10,000 in order to offset the growing wealth gap between generations. Free-market advocates did not welcome the report with open arms, and for good reason: its authors seem to want...