John Redwood’s Diary

Incisive and topical campaigns and commentary on today’s issues and tomorrow’s problems
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Comparing the digital and green revolutions

The digital and green revolutions compared

         In recent years the world has been swept by a massive wave of digital investment. Most people have come to own a smartphone, pad, desktop or laptop computer. Many have switched their entertainment from standard national tv channels to downloaded films...Read More »


Visit to Shinfield Studios

On Friday 3rd February I was invited to see the building works in Shinfield close to the M4 for the new complex of studios. It is a large building site, with one studio complex completed and another nearing completion. In total it will be some 1 million square feet of...Read More »


The dangers of more state intervention

Governments of the centre right as of the left have come to accept and recommend a whole range of interventions in the marketplace which do harm for the best of reasons. Wanting to keep rents down at a time of rising housing costs,  rent controls have been introduced and tax...Read More »


The battle of free enterprise and state control

        Capitalism has a bad name with the left who wish to make out it is characterised by exploitation of labour, overcharging and sole preoccupation with profit. Most businesses know that offering keen prices and good service are fundamental to success. They recognise that employees are one...Read More »


Democracy and free enterprise reinforce each other

Markets are economic democracy in action. Free  enterprise Is essential to democracy, the other side of the same coin. Free enterprise and democracy are the strawberries and cream of the styles of government. In a democracy people have a say in who governs them. Because they can vote an elected...Read More »


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