All election talk was about a government that did big things. But are such ambitions economically credible?

In 1950 the Schuman Declaration ended Europe’s disastrous arms race and opened up the cooperation which created the EU. It still offers lessons for both May and Macron

On Tuesday, the PM said that Britain should "strike trade deals with old friends." But Commonwealth countries are either far away, relatively poor—or both

It is ill-suited to today’s digitally connected, globalised world

Property taxes have long been a political minefield

They have slowly become the new normal. But in 5,000 years of data they stand out as an aberration—and now the saving classes are out for revenge

"The Prime Minister should be prepared to break with Conservative budgetary pieties"