Author Archives: johnredwood

I am pleased senior advisers go to hear the scientific advice at SAGE meetings and ask questions about it. Good policy advisers listen to specialist advice in order to use the wise bits of it in policy. read more

Everyone agrees it is a big call. Most agree it has to be made by the Cabinet, preferably with the PM present and guiding. Some say it should be left to the scientists. They have given us some criteria to do with death rates, cases in hospital rates, … read more

I recently published a study of the damage done to the UK economy by the boom and bust policies of past decades. It was part of a series of papers commissioned by the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) and published on Capx. I posted the study on the web… read more

I am reproducing this article which was recently posted on CapX in co-operation with the Centre for Policy Studies: There is no such thing as an Independent Central Bank. They are all the creatures of the states that own them. To those who thought oth… read more

I have been approached by constituents who are working hard for charity. One has asked me to mention his idea that people stuck at home might like to donate the price of their  missed haircut to charity.  To do so he has set up  www.haircutsforcharity… read more