The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has provided yet another weapon for the socialists to wield in their war against free markets. The IMF published a report with the suggestion that the Baby Boomer generation could work into their 70s to save the economy: “70 is the new 50." The IMF is not immune to political pressure, hence why it has chosen a solution that delays the unavoidable problems associated with state pension provision. This provides fertile ground for the socialists who seek to berate free markets and expand popular support for their political system. Socialist commentators...

The newly born Reform Party UK, with its freshmen five members of Parliament, recently attempted to introduce a bill that would prohibit quantitative easing (QE) except for emergency situations. This was done through a procedure the British parliamentary system calls a Ten-Minute Rule bill. Essentially, a member of parliament (MP) seeks permission to introduce a bill by making the case for it for only ten minutes and then another MP speaks against it for ten minutes. Rupert Lowe, the Reform MP who introduced the bill, was made the center of attention by making a parliamentary misstep at the...

For the first time in Royal Mail’s long history, stretching back to the 1500s, its owner will be based overseas. Daniel Kretinsky, a Czech billionaire, has acquired ownership over Royal Mail after a £3.6bn takeover. Royal Mail has been performing badly for years now after it was “privatized” in 2013. The company has suffered heavy financial losses as mountains of customers complain that they do not regularly receive letters like important medical documents or crucial legal documents on time. Onlookers and stakeholders can see with sublime clarity that the company is headed towards dire...

At the behest of the green lobby, western governments are driving full throttle down to arrive at a utopia where state intervention has stopped the permanency of climate change. Net zero refers to reaching a point where all the emissions produced by a nation are negated by the amount that is removed from the atmosphere. This means diverting vast quantities of resources towards green energy, energy efficient appliances etc. It's a goal shared by both major political parties in the United Kingdom, where only the particulars diverge. Billions of pounds of taxpayer money (and growing) has been...