Is Rachel Reeves brave enough to slash the civil service?
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is seeking to trim £2 billion from the government’s £13 billion administration budget, with up to 50,000…
Is foul play to blame for the Heathrow fire?
Ed Miliband has made the confident and somewhat premature reassurance that there is ‘no sign of foul play’ in the…
We’re all paying the price for Ed Miliband’s net zero rush
Pursuing net zero is the ‘opportunity of the century’ which will create tens of thousands of well-paid green jobs and…
Netflix’s Adolescence is far from perfect
According to one gushing review, Netflix’s Adolescence is the ‘most brilliant TV drama in years’. And that verdict is at…
Starmer is taking a big gamble with his welfare cuts
That the welfare bill needs bringing under control is pretty undeniable. According to projections by the Office for Budgetary Responsibility…
Is Rachel Reeves tough enough to cut disability benefits?
There are, as Rachel Reeves keeps telling us, some tough choices to be made. Whether she is personally tough enough…
How Europe’s electric battery dream ran out of power
Setting ourselves stringent net zero targets will help us get ahead of other countries in the race to develop green…
The Tories should have scrapped NHS England
Listening to Keir Starmer announce this morning that he is going to abolish NHS England can only make the Conservatives…
Quangos are forever
So it is goodbye to the Payment Systems Regulator, which will be merged with the Financial Conduct Authority. That is…
Who becomes a Labour politician to slash benefits?
If you are an idler sponging off the state, you have every excuse to feel cheated. Throughout his years in…
Think you’re so clever boycotting Tesla?
How difficult life has become for earnest, liberal-minded motorists who like to show off their environmental credentials through their choice…
Labour will struggle to reform the civil service
The need for the civil service reforms which Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden is proposing is glaring. It can be…
The disturbing rise of Defend Our Juries
On 29 March 2023, a retired social worker from Walthamstow, Trudi Warner, was arrested for standing outside Inner London Crown…
Is Labour brave enough to say the unsayable about the NHS?
Will this finally be the government which gets on top of the voracious financial monster that is the NHS and…
Matt Wrack will be a hardline teaching union boss
It has a whiff of the old trailer for Jaws 2, the one where viewers were disabused of the idea…
The Huw Edwards BBC pay saga shows how ridiculous the licence fee is
Did anyone really expect Huw Edwards to return the £200,000 he ‘earned’ – or, more correctly, was paid – between…
Why is the UK economy stalling?
Giving evidence to the Treasury Select Committee this afternoon, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey doubled down on a point…
Trade unions are calling the shots under Labour
Is Angela Rayner really being sidelined in this government, having been steamrollered by the rush for growth championed by Keir…
Angela Rayner is exercising her ‘right to switch off’ Britain’s growth
It was reported over the weekend that the government has dropped ‘the right to switch off’ from its Employment Rights…
The day I went missing
The Forcan Ridge off Glen Shiel can be a tricky place this time of year. There wasn’t a huge amount…
The Climate Change Committee is living in cloud cuckoo land
Energy bills may be going up and the economy may be flatlining, but not for long. Thankfully, the government’s Climate…
Why BP is ditching renewables
Among the big, bad oil companies in borstal for environmental offenses, BP has long been the relatively benign one, the…
Is Britain’s ‘net zero economy’ really booming?
If you live opposite the vacant site in Northumberland that was supposed to become the Britishvolt ‘gigafactory’ pumping out batteries…
The Apple encryption row has come at the worst time for Keir Starmer
I am not sure about the capacity of AI to take over the world and suppress humanity, but big tech…
The online shopping boom is well and truly over
So much for ‘dry’ and ‘no buy’ January. The UK public seems to have thoroughly rebelled against efforts to persuade…
