Public Policy

3 articles

Jul 21, 2025 • via The Standard

The £100,000 Trap: How Britain Built a System That Punishes Success

Only in Britain Earning £100,000 Makes You Poorer

The mathematics of modern Britain reveal a peculiar achievement: we've constructed a tax system where earning £99,999 leaves you better off than earning £149,000. This isn't a quirk or an oversight. It's the logical endpoint of a state apparatus that views productive citizens primarily as revenue sources to be squeezed, rather than assets to be cultivated.

Jun 25, 2025 • via BBC News

Suffocating Welsh Waterways: How Bureaucracy Fails the Environment

Volunteers doing what paid officials cannot deliver

87% of Welsh voters support pollution action that institutions claim to be taking, yet waterways continue failing. The gap between public will, official process, and actual outcomes reveals how UK governance produces non-functioning results through functioning bureaucracy.

Jun 24, 2025 • via Bloomberg UK

The Managed Decline of London: How Britain's Institutions Normalized Disorder

A deliberate policy choices of leaders and institutions that redefined normalcy downward.

London's disorder is not only a failure of governance but also deliberate policy choice by Britain's institutional classes to redefine normalcy downward. From rampant fare evasion to the normalization of drug dealing, the managed decline of public order serves powerful interests while leaving citizens to bear the costs.