Were budget expectations worse than reality in October 2024?
The leading polling organisations have not so far published any poll covering what the public expect to be in the budget to be delivered on 30th October 2024. Perhaps they haven’t needed to, as plenty of commentators have prepared us for the worst. Indeed, the Prime...
What happened to Margaret Thatcher’s dream of a share-owning public?
The 1980s in Britain was the decade of big privatisations. The Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, wanted to create a class of share-owning members of the public – her 1985 Conservative party conference speech imagined a society “where owning shares is as common as...
Has politics become an inevitable part of sport?
When Emmanuel Macron announced the snap election back in June, IOC President Thomas Bach and Paris 2024 organisers said that political upheaval in France won’t affect the Olympics. This seems unlikely; even before the French election was announced, world...