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…
The inevitable horror of an Ed Miliband premiership
Logic, sadly, points to one all-too-likely victor from the Labour leadership crisis: Ed Miliband. On the principle of ‘he who…
Zack Polanski’s council tax blunder shows he isn’t fit to lead the Greens
What a lucky fellow Zack Polanski is, in that his little council tax issue has come to light on the…
Nigel Farage has inherited Boris Johnson’s Red Wall problem
The thing about white working-class voters, as Boris Johnson discovered in 2019 and Nigel Farage is finding out now, is…
What happened to the Green wave?
No amount of Labour spin will disguise the party’s dreadful night, but the hefty losses of seats in English council…
Don’t feel sorry for the business leaders who backed Labour
Just what were business leaders expecting when so many of them sucked up to Labour before the 2024 general election?…
Why can’t Germany extradite the Madeleine McCann suspect?
I make no suggestion as to whether Christian Brueckner, the convicted rapist suspected of kidnapping and killing Madeleine McCann, is…
The state should keep its hands off your pension
The worst thing about the government’s plans to force pension providers to invest their money in particular assets is that…
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…
