Fraser Nelson thinks Brexiteers are the true liberals – does he remember their campaign?
Whatever they claim now, the Leave campaign was all about immigration
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Fraser Nelson is wrong about the deserving rich
On Friday, the Daily Telegraph published an article by Fraser Nelson arguing, essentially, that we should not make a fuss about the rise of the super-rich.
Fraser Nelson gets it badly wrong in today’s Telegraph
It must have seemed like quite a discovery, when Fraser Nelson found a Department for Education report which proved “that the whole premise of Labour’s education policy – that cash matters most – was false”.
Ignore for a moment the caricature of Labour’s 13 years in government; have Deloitte (who analysed the data on which Fraser Nelson’s argument is based) really discovered that levels of funding don’t matter in improving educational outcomes?
Fraser “see no evidence” Nelson wrong on UK benefits generosity
Declan Gaffney disproves Fraser Nelson’s claims that UK benefits “are some of the most generous in Europe”.
In Defence of Quantitative Easing
In the absence of fiscal stimulus, that is an injection of government spending, and with interest rates at rock bottom, the alternative to quantitative easing is mass unemployment. We have no choice.
It’s official: the 50p tax rate raises revenue
As the evidence comes in that the 50p tax rate raises hundreds of millions of pounds a year, Alex Hern looks at what the new Tory line will be on the rate.
Exposed: The climate deniers’ sea levels lies
The latest Spectator claims the sea level rise in the Maldives is a “lie”. And their source for this claim? Climate denier and pseudoscientist Nils-Axel Mörner.
Fraser Nelson massages new figures to rehash old, discredited argument
Fraser Nelson claims 154% of new jobs over the last year went to foreigners. He is massaging new stats to fit an old and discredited argument.
Fraser Nelson is wrong on the 50p tax rate
The Spectator’s Fraser Nelson is wrong on the 50p tax rate, Left Foot Forward’s Duncan Weldon reveals.
Fraser Nelson’s attack on 50p tax rate is full of holes
Writing in the Spectator, Fraser Nelson claims that the 50p tax rate, along with other high profile taxes on the wealthy, actually reduces tax revenue from the top percentile. The major piece of evidence he draws on is the table below. Showing the tax liability through income tax shouldered by various deciles of the tax base, he argues that as you reduce the top rate of tax, you actually collect more revenue.