I recently had the pleasure of talking to American author and columnist Amity Shlaes. Our full discussion can be found below.

The outcome of these policies will serve as the two millstones necessary to grind the middle and working-classes, with the increase in taxes on the one hand and the inevitable growth of inflation on the other.

516 MPs have voted for the new lockdown measures in England. Only thirty-eight voted against.

The government, gripped by this panic, along with the necessity to be perceived as doing something, has not just sold off the family silver, but thrown the savings onto the bonfire.

Actually showing substance as well as a smooth style would allow Labour to capitalise over the Conservatives’ vulnerability over the economy currently, which is being masked by Labour’s failures in this department.

At the stroke of the hour, COVID Marshalls, ready to risk life and limb, are deployed to the streets of Britain to protect their community from this existential threat.

The Vice President, in stark contrast to the President, remained calm and collected throughout; however, his assault on the Biden-Harris platform, from its plans to reverse the Trump tax cuts to its use of the Green New Deal as a framework for its energy policy, was just as uncompromising.

Increasingly, as politics becomes more partisan, those that watch debates are more often than not those that already have their minds made up and want to watch to root for their favoured candidate.