Reeves is using Iran as an excuse to get closer to the EU
Never let a good crisis go to waste, as they say. And Rachel Reeves has made it quite clear that…
An energy bill bailout would be a terrible idea
Liz Truss’s greatest fiscal sin was her Energy Price Guarantee. True, markets didn’t like her tax cuts unmatched by spending…
Tariff refunds are a nightmare for Trump’s economy
Donald Trump’s second presidency began with a blaze of executive orders which horrified and impressed in equal measure. It also begged…
Miliband’s fight against North Sea drilling is far from over
What have North Sea oil and gas production and grammar school education got in common? Both are subject to a…
The high cost of Ed Miliband’s ‘cheap’ renewable energy
First the good news. Some commercial users may be enjoying free electricity at some point this summer – or better…
Zack Polanski’s Green party bubble won’t last forever
It was bound to happen sooner or later, but coming at the beginning of a local election campaign in which…
The ONS should not work from home
Our invertebrate government has struck again. Given the chance to show a bit of backbone in the face of demands…
Trump gets Chamberlain wrong
Like US wartime presidents before him, Donald Trump made a priority of, and has succeeded, in attaining air superiority over…
What’s behind Britain’s blue badge boom?
How miraculous. Britain is full of people with devastating afflictions, with millions apparently unable to walk a few yards from…
The truth behind Miliband’s North Sea drilling U-turn
At first sight it might seem like the triumph of reason over ideology. The Times is reporting that Ed Miliband…
Reform will regret its commitment to the pensions triple lock
Reform UK has just made what could turn out to be an enormous error. Its Treasury spokesman, Robert Jenrick, has committed…
How Ed Miliband could actually profit from the energy crisis
According to Ed Miliband and Bridget Phillipson, motorists are paying more than they need to at the pumps because of…
Ed Miliband can’t keep blaming Iran for high energy costs
Sooner or later it is going to dawn on Ed Miliband and the rest of the government that anger over…
Has Trump averted an energy crisis?
Have markets and governments horribly underestimated the fallout from the Iran war, or is it the doomsters who have got…
Why the Iran oil crisis might not be as bad as we feared
Have markets and governments around the world horribly under-estimated the fallout from the war in Iran? That is the claim made…
This is how Brexit dies
This is the way that Brexit ends: not with a bang but with a whimpering submission to EU standards on…
Does Rachel Reeves know anything about AI?
Like Harold Wilson and his ‘white heat of technology’, Rachel Reeves is presumably hoping that blathering on about AI and…
Paul Ehrlich’s bad ideas won’t go away
I am sorry to hear of the death of Stanford University Professor of Biology Paul R. Ehrlich at the age…
Net zero is destroying Britain’s car industry
Could there be any greater vindication for the government’s policy of pushing us to buy electric vehicles than the crisis…
Slavery reparations will be the next Chagos betrayal
Well, who would have guessed? Emboldened by Mauritius’s success in persuading Keir Starmer to surrender the Chagos Islands – which…
What will Ed Miliband do when the lights go out?
How many times has Ed Miliband told us that his renewable energy policies were helping to free us from ‘fossil…
Stop sneering at the Brits stuck in Dubai
Who cares about vacuous influencers whose ghastly apartments in Dubai are being struck by Iranian missiles, wiping the smile off…
Labour’s Gorton defeat shows that Keir Starmer is finished
In the end it wasn’t even close. The Greens won the Manchester Gorton and Denton by-election with some to spare,…
Just how bad are Nato’s armies?
Given the relative sizes of their economies, one might conclude that Russia would quake before the military might of Europe’s…
What does the ONS mean by living in ‘good health’?
Living longer but spending more of our lives in ill health. That is the rather shocking picture presented by the…
