Of all western nations, Britain has amongst the highest tax rate on petrol – around 4/5 of the price consumers face for a litre of petrol is tax. Fuel is probably one of the few products that households buy in regular quantities at regular intervals, so price fluctuations are likely to be immediately obvious on …
Equality
How best to solve gender imbalance in the workplace?
A new paper by researchers at the University of Innsbruck suggests that from a young age – three years old – boys are more likely than girls to enter into competitive behaviour, and that this observed behaviour persists through childhood into adolescence. The paper is consistent with earlier studies which find a persistent and large …
The vexed issue of equality quotas
I have an interest to declare. I am a white, middle-class male. For that reason, I’m sure some will discount what I’m about to write as the bitter ramblings of a malcontent, angered by the prospect of his white, middle-class brethren losing their bear-like grip on the upper echelons of the Labour party. Not only …