Now starting up Tutorfair. Have worked at Lovefilm, Homeserve, Sainsbury's, LEK and P&G. Studied at Cambridge.
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Andrew Ground retweeted
Isn’t it hilarious that leftists always naively assume higher tax rates automatically mean higher tax revenues? Many instp show the opposite is true, Scotland just demonstrated it again.
Scotland raised the top rate to 48%. Static forecasts promised higher revenues. High earners did what they always do, the rearranged income, paid more into pensions, and some simply moved.
It has happened so many times before, yet the left keeps making the same mistakes. Raise rates far enough and people work less, report less, or leave. This is observed behaviour from Scotland, the UK, Norway, and France’s wealth tax, which produced capital flight for decades. Ireland went the other way on corporation tax and watched revenue surge as activity arrived.
The extremely naive assumption behind “tax the rich” is that the pie stays the same size and the slice just gets bigger. In reality it doesn’t, the pie gets smaller. Why is this so difficult for the leftists to understand?
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Good list
Every year @BritishProgress asks Britain's top economists and policy researchers what the UK should do to increase growth.
🚨 As covered exclusively for @thetimes this morning, the 2026 growth survey results are now in! 🚨
This was our biggest survey yet with over 100 responses.
📉 The bad news: Britain's public finances, with inflation hit by external shocks, are in a bad state.
📈 The good news: the UK is not without options. There is much that can be done on the supply side reforms, & smarter fiscal policy can raise revenue while supporting growth.
Here are the 12 most interesting results 👇
*1. Where should the government prioritise spending political capital?*
We asked "In what areas should the Government invest more (or less) political capital to achieve growth?"
NB this was explicitly not a question about spending – that's the next one.
Andrew Ground retweeted
🚨 NEW - BRITAIN IS STILL LOSING JOBS
The UK has now recorded 7 consecutive monthly falls in payroll employment.
Since Labour came to office, and hit employers with its jobs tax, Britain has lost 216,000 payrolled jobs compared with June 2024.
30.44m → 30.23m
Retail, -138k
Hospitality, -103k
Manufacturing, -69k
Information & communication, -69k
I guess this is what Labour meant by “fixing the foundations.”
Andrew Ground retweeted
Housebuilding in London faces its strongest headwinds since the Second World War.
Starts are down to just 4,170 a year, while nearly 100,000 people moved to London last year.
London has not got close to the Labour Government's target of 88,000 new homes a year since the 1930s.
As a result, only the richest households can even afford the cheapest homes and the median household cannot afford any house, without a hefty inheritance.
London residents are also the most supportive of building new homes in their local area (59% in favour versus 14% against).
And if we got London building homes again, the UK economy would grow by tens of billions a year.
For all these reasons and more, we desperately need to build more homes in London. My new report, jointly written with @LRFredricks and with forewords from @JamesCleverly and @policylaila lays out how a future Mayor and Housing Secretary can build the homes London needs. We just need to:🧵
Andrew Ground retweeted
The irony of Burnham's bollocks about Right to Buy and council housing is that the secret of Manchester's housing success was literally the exact opposite - prioritising maximum private building over number of subsidised units. Here's (Labour) council leader Richard Leese.
Andrew Ground retweeted
250 years ago today Adam Smith gave the world a fantastic insight.
That order, cooperation and prosperity are not ordered from above by priests or chiefs but emerge from the social interactions of ordinary people.
It’s the most revolutionary and benign idea ever proposed.
Great article about Hammersmith Bridge
To rebuild Britain we should start with Hammersmith Bridge cityam.com/to-rebuild-britai…
Andrew Ground retweeted
London is one of the world's most expensive cities.
The market is crying out for more housing, but supply has ground to a halt due to a broken Building Safety Regulator and excessive affordable housing mandates.
This is a colossal policy failure.
Andrew Ground retweeted
2. “When you want to help people, you tell them the truth.
When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
• Modern-day politics is full of people repeating what we want to hear while doing nothing
• Truth: we need action, not nice words.
Andrew Ground retweeted
A rare, emotionally led, argument for Remain. Has stayed with me like few others. Thank you @margot_james_
this is a powerful, damning column from former Tory business minister @margot_james_ in the @FT
ft.com/content/96ddbc8a-0152…
Andrew Ground retweeted
I celebrated #NoBrexitDay today by walking in to a doctors surgery in Germany and getting free treatment on my EHIC card- another benefit of EU membership
Andrew Ground retweeted
Glen, from Sidcup, has rung into @LBC.
He rejects the Government’s demands to get Brexit done.
“When my grandchildren ask me in ten years ‘why did you do this?’ I don’t want to reply ‘well, we got a little bit bored’.”
Andrew Ground retweeted
Today is climate strike day. Millions of people across the world, according to the organisers, will be marching to save the planet.
But having dug into what they're actually marching for, I'm profoundly uneasy. So uneasy, in fact, that it's time for a THREAD.
Andrew Ground retweeted
Johnson and Cummings, both unelected officials, are definitely putting new meaning on 'take back control'
Andrew Ground retweeted
Tutorfair Co- Founder, @markmaclaine is currently working on his new book based on experiences he has gained over his many years of tutoring. In this chapter he looks at the way tutors can help encourage students to solve problems before teaching them. tutorfair.com/blog/generatin…
Nice article from @BenFletch - nTo make decisions fast, you need a culture of urgency...combine targets with measures that accelerate the speed of decision-making
velocitysq.com/high-velocity…