Michael Simmons
Economics editor at The Spectator who writes the cover piece on welfare and contributes economic analysis and data-driven commentary on benefits and public finance.
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Apr 10, 2026 • 49min
The Edition: is Britain losing its sense of fairness?
Tim Montgomerie, centre-right political commentator and ConservativeHome founder; William Atkinson, Spectator assistant content editor with cultural-political insight; Michael Simmons, Spectator economics editor probing welfare costs. They debate huge attraction discounts for benefit claimants, whether such perks infantilise claimants or hide taxpayer subsidies, the rising welfare bill and pension politics, plus Anglo-Gaulism, Orbán’s fate, Kanye and Artemis II.
