The farmers’ revolt

There are policies that seem to work and some that don’t. But the policy that always works best is no policy at all. That is, left alone, people do the best they can with what they have. Only they kno

Are you tired of next month’s Budget yet? Governments fly so many kites these days it feels as though we have been through the whole thing twice in slow motion already. No wonder: last year the chance

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The Labour administration will reap what it has sown, but Richard Negus spells out what a future government can do to regain the trust of agriculture

The world is full of recurring patterns, not just in the natural world but in the social realm, too. There is the boom-bubble-bust cycle of the stockmarket. There is what we call the Primary Trend, in

T HE OFFICE FOR BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY is not ...