Tanweer Ali Articles

Last week the government finally published its impact report on Labour’s Future Jobs Fund. According to the report, two years after starting their jobs with the scheme, participants were 16 per cent less likely to be on benefits than if they had not taken part and 27...

There were two excellent pieces on Labour’s policy towards the budget deficit last week. One appeared on this site, written by an anonymous researcher to a shadow minister and the other by Jonathan Freedland in the Guardian. Both reached different conclusions on where...

A timely new book challenges the received wisdom in economics. It was the Queen who asked the big question in the aftermath of the financial crisis – why did nobody see it coming? Many of the world’s most distinguished economists took upthe challenge, with varying...