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  • Mark my words: Is the penny dropping?

    "Maybe, just maybe, PopCon’s call for a thoroughgoing restoration of the British constitution is finding support in unexpected quarters." Read the latest column from PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood. 

     

  • Mark my words: The OBR - Abolish it or compete with it?

    In his latest column, PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, looks at the Spring Statement and announces that he is a launching his own economic forecasting agency in order to compete with the OBR. 

     

  • The Government of Blissful Ignorance

    Head of Communications, Annunziata Rees-Mogg, writes that the big question is not why this Labour Government is so bad: what matters is that all of us will suffer from its total incompetence.  

  • Crying Wolf (Hall)

    Our correspondent takes a sceptical look at the funding of the BBC

  • Just like Mozart, Wigmore Hall has chosen freedom

    London's Wigmore Hall has chosen to reject further Arts Council funding. Andrew Allison has the full story, with some historical context thrown into the mix. 

     

  • Judicial Review Nr.1

    In the first of an occasional series, our scribe reflects on the wacky world of the English legal system

  • Ukraine: From Tragedy to Farce

    Our melancholy scribe reflects on the bitter comedy now being played out in Ukraine

  • Mark my words: Net Zero Hero?

    In his latest column, PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, looks at Kemi Badenoch's speech on net zero last week. "The mainstream political consensus over carbon net zero is over." 

     

  • Net Zero Hero?

    Our author smiles benevolently as Badenoch ditches the 2050 net zero target

  • Mark my words: One step forward, 27 steps back

    In his latest column, PopCon Director, Mark Littlewood, talks about the abolition of NHS England. 

     

  • Mr. Miliband goes to Beijing

    Ed Miliband really is the end, reflects our scribe

  • Repenting Starmer

    Mr. Swift cautiously salutes the PM's change of tone on big government