Is Rachel Reeves really worried about a fiscal black hole?
There is one over-arching question hanging over Rachel Reeves’s speech today, in which she claimed that a £21.9 billion hole…
Rachel Reeves paves the way for spending cuts and tax hikes
Rachel Reeves has just announced a series of spending cuts in the House of Commons. These were ‘incredibly tough choices’,…
Rachel Reeves is right to cut the ‘winter fuel’ bung
A millionaire I know has a tradition every year: he buys a bottle of vintage wine with his Winter Fuel…
Will the US apply pressure to combat Maduro’s election fraud?
Sunday night was a long one in Venezuela. At midnight, the much anticipated yet dubious results came in for the…
The UN would have Israel accept attacks on its citizens
The slaughter of 12 children on an Israeli soccer pitch was awful, of course, but it’s important not to overreact…
What the Labour Growth Group is really about
In a month full of parliamentary firsts, we now have another: the formation of the first new Labour caucus. More…
‘Yellow card’ system to stop Tory leadership turmoil
Nominations for the Tory leadership race have this afternoon closed – and the competition now has six official candidates. Kemi…
Australia slowly retreats from vaccine mandates
The retreat from Covid hysteria in Australia has been painfully slow and uneven. In one dispatch from the virus overreaction…
Would tinkering with the banking system help first home buyers?
There is a simple and free way to observe a fascinating yet little-known aspect of Australia’s banking system. By browsing…
Maduro’s win spells despair for Venezuela
It was meant to be a crushing defeat ending 25 years of socialist rule, and the presidency of a man…
Was the far left to blame for France’s Olympic railway chaos?
Trains are again running normally in France today after engineers worked over the weekend to repair the damage caused by…
Watch: Just Stop Oil tries – and fails – to cause chaos at Gatwick
Just Stop Oil eco-activists took to Gatwick Airport this morning – but their attempt to disrupt summer holiday travellers appears…
What we didn’t learn from the Manchester Airport police ‘attack’
There’s a famous 1986 TV advert for the Guardian (remember when newspapers had TV adverts?) which shows you footage of…
Will Rachel Reeves get away with a ‘doctors’ mandate’ to hike taxes?
It’s ‘blame the Tories’ day in Westminster as Rachel Reeves prepares to take centre stage. The new Chancellor will this…
Trump’s crackdown on Mexico’s narco-cartels won’t work
Donald Trump has said he would not rule out military action against Mexico’s narco-cartels which he blames for the opioid crisis killing…
Is Robert Jenrick fit to lead the Tories?
As the Conservative leadership contest gets underway, the various candidates are busy talking up their differences. But most of the…
What’s the problem with playing Premier League football in the US?
Sadiq Khan has suggested that the long rumoured prospect of Premier League fixtures being played in the United States is…
The Gold Coast’s unAustralian ‘view tax’
Labor’s cost of living crisis and expanding black hole in the Treasury has led many to believe that they’ll soon…
Things are about to get ugly in Venezuela
At 3:45 a.m., the sun was not yet out in the Venezuelan valley of Caracas, but Andrés, a twenty-two-year old…
Albanese’s game of Cabinet charades
The colour of authoritarianism is grey. I learned this the first time I sat in a wonderful old town square…
Suella Braverman bows out with a blast
The Tory leadership race is hotting up and there’s lots of familiar faces featuring this time around. Kemi Badenoch, Priti…
Can anyone stop Kemi Badenoch?
Kemi Badenoch has become the sixth – and potentially last – candidate to enter the Conservative leadership race. In an…
Democracy is better off with policy think tanks
In case you missed it, media attention recently focused on a US think tank and its worked-up policy plans for…
Time for tough love or Australia will go to the dogs
From Thimphu, Bhutan: To ‘go to the dogs’ is an idiom that means an organisation or a country is ‘deteriorating…
An Anzac story
In an obscure cove, on an unknown beach, in a foreign land far-far away, on the morning of the April…
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