In a piece about how the plan - by defining as flood plain and therefore making flood insurance impossible - has just killed off Ell Pie Island, we see this:

A useful little example of this free market thing here. The grand freedom is that we, us consumers, bend the capitalists to our will by our actions.

Good to see that some are grasping this simple concept: Wes Streeting has ordered a “high-stakes” reorganisation of the NHS that will scrap 10,000 jobs in an attempt to free up cash for frontline care.

We spent a decade making the case that the personal allowance - for both NI (both types) and income tax - should be whatever the full year, full time minimum wage income is. We even won the case intellectually but of course by the time it was phased in inflation had moved the target beyond what happened.

The grand thing about markets is not, in fact, that people can profit from doing the right thing well. Rather, it’s the firm thwack in the face people get from doing the wrong thing badly.

Why has the civil service grown so big — but not more productive?The problems are not new, and governments have been vowing to streamline Whitehall for decades. But according to one expert, the central problem is ‘there is no one in charge’

It’s always a little difficult when claiming that the famed result of a Nobel-winning economist was wrong.

Largely on the grounds that economists know little to nothing about theology. Certainly nothing professionally relevant.

Joe Stiglitz has done some outstanding economic work in his time. But possibly a greater gift to humanity is the creation of the Stiglitz Test.

The new head of the NEF - now that Ms. Fanbulleh is in Parliament - takes to The Guardian to tell us all off: According to the latest count by the Office for National Statistics, 38% of all turnover of non-financial businesses in Britain went through foreign owned companies…

Not that we would make such an accusation against one so eminent as our own Foreign Secretary: However, a more radical option is now being considered that could solve Europe’s rearmament crisis overnight.

This is presented as a grand problem: Foreign exporters – chiefly China – will race to offload stock they can no longer sell competitively in the US, possibly undercutting British producers.