Britain should place a big bet on the petrol engine
Ministers should be hailing it as a major vote of confidence in the economy. King Charles should be clearing his…
Jeremy Hunt’s City reforms are far too timid
There will be some tweaks to the way that pension funds are allowed to invest their money. There will be…
Will Threads tame Elon Musk’s Twitter?
We will need tighter regulation. We will need new laws and controls. And we will have to organise boycotts of…
Labour must resist jumping on the mortgage bail-out bandwagon
Millions of potential voters in marginal constituencies face punishing rises in their mortgage repayments over the coming months and years.…
Rishinomics isn’t working
Tax rises would bring debts under control. The Bank of England would bring inflation back down again. The government would…
Keir Starmer is clueless about energy security
It will create lots of well-paid jobs, especially in Scotland. It will reduce our electricity bills. And it will make…
Is France finally changing its tune on Brexit?
The waiters can sometimes be a little surly. That holiday villa you booked in the Loire may not always be…
Sunak has hitched a ride on Biden’s climate gravy train
Sometimes it helps to have a banker as Prime Minister. They have plenty of faults. They can be dry, calculating,…
Britain should get out of the electric vehicle business
A frantic round of last-minute lobbying is already underway. Officials are trying to stitch together a deal. And the Prime…
Will the Fed torpedo Joe Biden’s re-election?
Hollywood will be backing him en masse. The major newspapers will be rooting to put him back in the White…
The UK’s treatment of Activision shows it is closed for business
It was, admittedly, not quite as thrilling as an action sequence from Call of Duty. Even so, the statement put…
London’s stock market risks sinking into irrelevance
The chip maker ARM decided against listing its shares in London, despite plenty of arm twisting from the government. The…
The CBI has outlived any useful purpose
The director-general has been forced to stand down amid allegations of misconduct. There are allegations against others inside the organisation of harassment…
Deutsche Bank’s collapse would be a threat to the whole eurozone
It could be next month. It might be next week. Or it might well happen over the weekend. But today’s…
Rishi Sunak was wrong to publish his tax returns
He has plenty of money. He earns a substantial amount from his investments. And he gets a City firm to…
What can save Credit Suisse now?
It would be enough to buy Tesco twice over. Or Barclays, with almost enough change left over to buy Lloyds…
Jeremy Hunt will have to rescue Silicon Valley Bank’s London clients
It will be yet another bailout for failed bankers. It will simply encourage yet more risk-taking in the City. It…
Will the last company to leave the City please turn out the lights?
It would have been bad enough if just one major British company had decided to list its shares in New…
Why does Starmer think Britain should be richer than Poland?
Our growth rate has been miserable. We have not invested enough. And over thirteen years the Conservatives have cut spending…
How bitcoin bounced back after FTX
One of the major exchanges has gone spectacularly bust. Billions of investor’s money has been lost. There have been allegations…
Why is it so hard for Britain to control inflation?
We are not leading the world in deregulation, or in creating new ‘green industries’. We certainly don’t lead in tax-cutting,…
Trussonomics is slowly winning the argument
It was self-indulgent, whinging. Dull in places while completely batty in others. All the usual insults will be hurled at…
Don’t condemn Shell over its bumper profits
It is ‘obscene’ and ‘an insult to working families’, according to the TUC. If there was one thing more predictable…
The UK is right to keep faith in crypto
It will be a charter for fraudsters. It will usher in an open-season mindset for money launderers and criminals. And…
Davos man is back in charge of the global economy
Davos was back with a bang this week for the first full-scale winter conference since the pandemic. And yet, the…
