With a few exceptions in Scotland and elsewhere, higher education is free at the point of entry for all first-time undergraduate students in the UK, because at minimum they can take out a government-subsidised student loan to defer the full cost of their fees until they are earning above a...
These exports are subsidised by UK consumers. We are in danger of overinvesting in wind, which will make these surpluses more frequent. We might redesign our market to achieve more curtailment rather than exports at negative prices. But as curtailment rises, prices will rise on days without su...
For the majority of the population welfare reform after 1945 offered family allowances, free medical treatment, subsidised housing and educational opportunities on a scale not known before. Kevin Jeffreys Between 1945 and 1951, the Labour Government kept the promises they had made in their election ...