The welcome demise of NCP
It will probably come as a surprise to anyone who has paid £10 per hour or more for one of…
Replacing Churchill with wildlife on our banknotes is a mistake
The Bank of England has announced that pictures of wildlife will replace famous faces on our banknotes. A cute kitten,…
Rachel Reeves’s Spring Statement was a wasted opportunity
In some parallel universe, a British Chancellor of the Exchequer today delivered a barnstorming Spring Statement designed to fix the…
Is it time for Rachel Reeves to give Britain a tax cut?
The self-employed have paid up. And investors are paying record amounts of capital gains tax. The public finance figures for…
Bring on Rachel Reeves’s boring Spring statement
For the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, to tell everyone in advance that her Spring statement will be ‘boring’ is a little…
Rejoining the EU single market won’t boost Britain’s growth
In his speech in Munich on Saturday, the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, made it very clear that he was…
Net zero is forcing BP into irrelevance
It should have moved ‘Beyond Petroleum’ by now, with wind, solar and hydroelectric power powering its profits. If you rewind…
Musk’s SpaceX is worth every penny
As the hype builds for the reported $1.5 trillion IPO of Elon Musk’s SpaceX later this year, there will be…
Don’t give up on gold just yet
Anyone who thought that gold, the world’s oldest form of money, was a safe asset that they could tuck away…
Is time up for Tesla?
Has Tesla run out of road? The electric car firm put plenty of spin on its annual results, talking bullishly…
Is any other investment as good as gold?
Last year might have proved a good time to own shares in the chip-maker Nvidia, along with the booming American…
Elon Musk would be a great new owner for Ryanair
A Tesla would whisk you to the airport. The planes would be self-flying. And robots would serve the over-priced sandwiches,…
Venezuela could transform the global oil industry
No one really knows how the situation in Venezuela will unfold over the next few years following President Trump’s audacious…
We don’t need a stealth tax on rotisserie chicken
It depends on whether you re-heat it when you get home, apparently. Or whether it is sold in a bag…
Why it’s good the NHS is paying more for medicines
We have caved in to bullying from President Trump. It will put NHS budgets under even more pressure. And the…
The Budget has created a £2 million house-price limit
It has lots of original features. It is close to good schools, and with a few cans of Farrow &…
Reeves’s Budget is dead on arrival
The Budget speech has no doubt been finalised. The red box has been dusted off. And the pie charts are…
Don’t write off Bitcoin yet
Bitcoin is crashing all over again, and it is taking the smaller crypto currencies down with it. It has fallen…
Are AI stocks about to crash?
Bitcoin has lost almost a quarter of its value. The tech-heavy Nasdaq index on Wall Street has started to fall.…
The damage from Reeves’s ‘exit tax’ idea has been done
It appears that Rachel Reeves has scrapped her plans for an ‘exit tax’ that would impose a huge levy on…
Will Rachel Reeves listen to easyJet’s warning?
We are all familiar with the different excuses for why we find ourselves stuck at the Spoons in Luton or…
Will London tempt the New Yorkers fleeing Mamdani?
As New York’s wealthy elite weigh up the options under their new ‘democratic socialist’ Mayor Zohran Mamdani, many of them…
The Bank of England won’t risk bailing Rachel Reeves out
After yet another dreadful week, the Chancellor Rachel Reeves must be praying the Bank of England helps her out by…
Nigel Farage is right to abandon tax cuts
Nigel Farage has shelved massive tax cuts in favour of slashing public spending in a bid to balance the books.…
A tariff alliance won’t stop Britain’s steel industry collapsing
The British steel industry has been staggering from one crisis to another for the whole of this year. Half of…
