Matthew Bowles
@Matthew__Bowles
Strategic Partnerships Manager @iealondon
🧵 Labour 'willing to explore' wealth tax - when will they ever learn? Making the wealthy pay is often a popular policy, but does it make economic sense? Let's look at the facts👇
‘So we lose 15,000 rich men and women and we gain 22,000 penniless asylum seekers.’ @NickFerrariLBC is doubtful that a wealth tax would do the country any good.
Lifetime ISAs aren’t fit for purpose in their current state, but scrapping them will set young people back years. We need to reform them to make sure young people can have a stake in society and own their own home. Me in @CityAM 👇 cityam.com/a-new-lisa-lif…
Can confirm the @jcdinnage piece is all the talk at Westminsters' drinking holes tonight 🍻
Great piece by @jcdinnage - keep up the great work!
"It’s been repeated ad nauseum, but we need to build more homes." Good point, well made!
New @ukonward polling shows that concerning numbers of young Brits are flirting with communism and fascism I was a teen Lefty - but collectivism is a fool’s errand Politicians just need to start actually using their mandate My latest in @CapX👇 capx.co/britains-antid…
Great piece by @jcdinnage - keep up the great work!
New @ukonward polling shows that concerning numbers of young Brits are flirting with communism and fascism I was a teen Lefty - but collectivism is a fool’s errand Politicians just need to start actually using their mandate My latest in @CapX👇 capx.co/britains-antid…
New @ukonward polling shows that concerning numbers of young Brits are flirting with communism and fascism I was a teen Lefty - but collectivism is a fool’s errand Politicians just need to start actually using their mandate My latest in @CapX👇 capx.co/britains-antid…
In need of a new book for your upcoming holiday? Here's what CapX is reading this summer 🧵👇
@Matthew__Bowles 👉 The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Means of Ascent by Robert Caro 👉 The Magus by John Fowles 👉 Judgement at Tokyo by Gary Bass
Britain is ready for a Reagan ✍️ Matthew Bowles spectator.co.uk/article/britai…
Are there parallels between 1970s America and Britain in the late 2010s and 2020s? One thing is clear - we need a bold individual to break from the pack and lead us out of economic stagnation. I explore this in my piece in the @spectator below. spectator.co.uk/article/britai…
Often, state failure isn’t down to incompetence, but its shameless priorities The Afghan scheme plus the rape gangs and Horizon scandals show that when its legitimacy is threatened, the state very efficiently covers it up This can’t last👇 capx.co/we-live-in-a-p…
Sometimes it’s good to remember how common terms were first understood. Speaking of, here is a piece on the evolution of public goods. From the Kantian conception to the modern economic understanding. adamsmith.org/blog/public-go…
A state whose only real strength is covering its arse after a scandal is not a sustainable political prospect ✍️@jcdinnage on what the Afghan scheme tells us about British politics capx.co/we-live-in-a-p…
Did you know that the Homes England quango is not only wasting money but driving up building prices for developers by charging fees? 💷 Our investigations campaign manager @marchong_joanna explains 👇