Alex Singleton

The environmental debate is changing. Yesterday’s debate was all about living simpler, more basic lives, banning foreign holidays and beating up the market economy. But today, more environmentalists are recognising the importance of business and economic vitality in promoting good environmental ends.
This change is starting to materialise in Brussels. I was pleased when recently one […]

Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson reports in The Financial Times that now even the Entertainment Retailers’ Association, which represents companies like HMV, WHSmith and Woolworths, is calling for digital rights management to be scrapped. The reason? Because it hurts sales.
Digital rights management, in which music is locked to a particular CD, computer or music player, is annoying for […]

Over on Telegraph.co.uk, I blog about Peter Mandelson’s rather sound view that cutting taxes on trade tends to raise revenues. Now if only Gordon Brown would apply that understanding more generally to Britain’s tax system…