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5 days ago | 
fee.org | Jake Scott
Taking the high-spend, high-tax economy to a whole new level. Presented by the Chancellor, the Spending Review is intended to set each government department’s budget. This latest review, the first from Rachel Reeves, has pledged to increase Britain’s public spending by 2.3% annually in real terms, meaning the current spending figure of £1.2 trillion per year, which is around £17,000 per person, would rise to over £18,600 per person by the end of this parliament in 2029.
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1 week ago | 
fee.org | Sergio Martinez |Sergio Martínez
The legacy of Alexander Hamilton and Friedrich List. Two of the most influential voices against free trade in the late 18th and 19th centuries were American founding father Alexander Hamilton and German economist Friedrich List. Both championed a version of the “infant industry” argument, advocating temporary protectionist measures to foster domestic manufacturing in countries still lagging behind industrial leaders like Great Britain.
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2 weeks ago | 
fee.org | Kerry McDonald
Families need choices, not punishments. In the spring of 2019, HuffPost ran an in-depth story on the human costs of Kamala Harris’s war on truancy. It described how Harris had cracked down on truancy when she was San Francisco’s district attorney and later as California’s attorney general. Her efforts were ruining lives.
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2 weeks ago | 
fee.org | Lika Kobeshavidze
What the South Caucasus can teach the West about self-reliance. In the South Caucasus, people don’t wait for permission to solve problems. They build what they need with what they have, rarely expecting help from above. In Georgia and Armenia, where trust in centralized institutions remains low, and bureaucracy is often a barrier rather than a source of support, people have developed something the West is quietly losing: a cultural instinct for self-reliance. This instinct isn’t merely an ideal.
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3 weeks ago | 
fee.org | Mark Nayler
Managing trade tensions between China and Trump. Tensions between the US and China have placed Europe at the center of a global trade standoff—but Spain sees this difficult situation as an opportunity.
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1 month ago | 
fee.org | Douglas Carswell
They won’t end the income tax, bring back jobs, or stop China. They will make you poorer. President Trump has established a baseline 10% tariff on nearly all imports. Additionally, the White House announced plans for reciprocal tariffs on 57 countries. A week later, on April 9, the administration then paused these measures for 90 days. We still don’t know whether the reciprocal tariffs will take effect after July 9.
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1 month ago | 
fee.org | Jake Scott
Local election results signal wide discontent. In the United Kingdom, a mini political earthquake has thrown everything up into the air. At the beginning of May, several local councils held elections for the county, allowing voters a say in how their local services are managed—bin collection, potholes being filled in, local development plans, etc. These elections are not, therefore, the most decisive electoral events of the calendar.
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1 month ago | 
fee.org | Lika Kobeshavidze
Gen Z’s rage should be against cronyism, not capitalism. Across college campuses, on TikTok feeds, and in everyday conversations, a familiar narrative is gaining steam: capitalism is broken. Rising rents and stagnant wages fuel the claim among some young people that free markets have failed an entire generation. According to a 2024 poll by the Institute of Economic Affairs, more than 60% of young Britons now view socialism favorably.
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1 month ago | 
fee.org | Rachel Chiu
A new kind of deregulation in the Trump era. The Trump administration has sought to tackle an issue of government overreach that, while seemingly trivial, is bound to have significant consequences for administrative law. On April 9th, President Trump signed “Maintaining Acceptable Water Pressure in Showerheads,” an executive order (EO) that directed the Secretary of Energy to repeal a 13,000-word regulation limiting, by definition, the amount of water that could flow through household nozzles.
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1 month ago | 
fee.org | Jake Scott
Too expensive even for the rich. Do the wealthy hate Britain? You would be forgiven for thinking so, from the way wealthy people and companies are fleeing the country. As many as 11,000 millionaires have left since the beginning of 2024, often taking their businesses with them. The effects are finally being felt: in April 2025, The Times reported that the receipts from Capital Gains Tax (CGT) fell from £14.5 billion ($19.3 billion) to £13 billion ($17 billion)—a 10% drop.