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How is it possible that the public sector is no more productive today than it was in 1996, before the internet took off? Britain has a chronic productivity problem. As the American economy marches upwards in output per person, Britain limps behind. As Ben Southwood, Samuel Hughes and Sam Bowman have calculated, if GDP per hour […]

Only today the tax-grabbing barons are public sector fat cats.. and you’re the peasant funding their gold-plated pay rises Next week, the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, apparently plans to raise the rate of national insurance paid by employers. But the government itself is a large employer, through the NHS for example. It has now occurred to […]