Andy Burnham’s plan to reverse Thatcherism is a little ridiculous
Why not blame Herbert Asquith or Lord Aberdeen? Andy Burnham’s line about reversing ‘40 years of neo-liberalism’ – i.e. since…
Nationalising British Steel is not the worst idea
Keir Starmer won’t leave much of a legacy, but his last week has brought one thing which will be seen…
A land value tax would be disastrous
Earnings are taxed too highly, Andy Burnham has hinted, and wealth too little. I don’t hold much hope for a…
Is Ed Miliband really changing his tune on North Sea oil?
I’m a little sceptical of reports that Ed Miliband is prepared to back down and accept new drilling for gas…
Badenoch would be wrong to boot net zero backers from the Tories
No-one has spent more time opposing Britain’s net zero target than me. I wrote a whole book on it as…
What is Farage’s game?
It is a mark of Nigel Farage’s position on the nation’s consciousness that he has succeeded in pushing the judgement…
Do doctors think tax rises shouldn’t apply to them?
‘Only the little people pay taxes,’ New York hotel tycoon Leona Helmsley was once reputed to have said. She later…
Only bad parents will let their kids skip school to watch the England game
Is Thomas Tuchel a secret agent sent by Friedrich Merz’s government to ruin the UK economy and education system so…
The problem with Burnham’s ‘cost of living populism’
Is Andy Burnham plotting to base his premiership around a policy of ‘cost of living populism’? That is what is being…
Is Andy Burnham really ready to become prime minister?
Andy Burnham is not prime minister yet, but he has already outdone John Major. Whoever thought of putting him in…
Prime minister Andy Burnham spells trouble for the southeast
Andy Burnham is not giving much away as to what a government led by him would look like. Given that it…
Why aren’t conservatives more excited about Kemi Badenoch?
Is the Right ready to take advantage of a fractious Left in the increasingly unlikely scenario that Andy Burnham will…
Streeting’s surrender is bad for Britain
Government bonds haven’t had a great few days, but there is one asset which has plummeted far quicker in value…
How much is PM Burnham going to cost Britain?
The Makerfield by-election – in which Andy Burnham swept to victory overnight – has been presented as a fight for…
Britain will never be the ‘Saudi Arabia of wind’
If you thought that Net Zero couldn’t get any sillier, it just has. Remember how, according to Boris Johnson, Britain was…
Will the Hinkley C nuclear power station ever open?
It was 20 years ago last month that the then Prime Minister Tony Blair announced that nuclear power was “back…
How Labour ruined the labour market
So, is an open labour market a good thing or not? There is little point in looking to the government…
Andy Burnham is doing himself no favours with the bond markets
If we have learned anything from the Makerfield by-election campaign it is what a slippery character Andy Burnham is. Last…
If only Peter Mandelson were still in government
The Mandelson files have produced a truly damning revelation about Keir Starmer’s government. But it is one which will be…
Did ‘neoliberalism’ really wreck Britain?
Andy Burnham thinks Tony Blair is missing something, and he is being too polite to say it is a few…
Tony Blair is right about Britain – but can’t own up to his mistakes
Andy Burnham has been described as Labour’s ‘king over the water’ who could save us from the turgid decline of…
Labour hasn’t won the battle for Britain’s borders. Far from it
Where the Tories failed on controlling Britain’s borders, letting net migration surge to an unprecedented 944,000 in the year to…
Andy Burnham is making Keir Starmer look good at politics
One of the many complaints levied against Keir Starmer is that he is fundamentally bad at politics; he doesn’t know…
Britain’s growth uptick can’t save Starmer and Reeves now
At any other time the GDP figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) this morning would have come…
Miliband’s energy plan is no different to Just Stop Oil’s
A few weeks ago it seemed as if some sense was finally creeping into Labour’s energy policy. It was reported…
