The Ulez rebellion has started
It was, to adapt the famous Sun headline from the 1992 general election, Ulez wot won it. The Conservatives’ narrow…
Has Britain avoided falling into recession?
Earlier in the week, the stock market responded very positively to news that inflation had come out a little lower…
Striking consultants aren’t likely to get sympathy
Today and tomorrow’s strike by NHS consultants underlines how industrial action has become the preserve of the well-paid. The consultants…
Why have the Tories given up on London?
Have you ever heard of Susan Hall? Until a month ago, I hadn’t. Now that she has been selected as the…
How investors could benefit from the cooling housing market
There are, of course, many people struggling with their mortgage repayments. There are first-time buyers who have been especially hard…
The strange glee over the European heatwave
You could almost sense climate campaigners willing those thermometers in Sardinia to nudge into the unknown – a reading above…
It’s not for Sunak to save students from themselves
Rishi Sunak is not wrong to write, as he does in the Telegraph today, that too many young people are…
If the Tories scrap inheritance tax, I’m voting Labour
I have been playing a game with myself recently: asking just what would it take for me to vote Labour…
Cruise liners should apologise to Faroe Islanders
It is not pleasant to think of a poor bunch of creatures in distress, but the passengers who visited the…
Would road pricing be fair?
Sometimes there is a problem so glaring that you wonder why no one is addressing it. Sooner or later, the…
Should people with big gardens pay more for their water?
According to Cathryn Ross, Thames Water’s co-interim chief executive, householders with large gardens should be paying a higher price for…
Is Jeremy Hunt following in Gordon Brown’s footsteps?
Anyone fancy having a flutter with 5 per cent of their pension fund on unlisted start-ups? It is not necessarily…
Is Joe Biden really a close friend of Britain?
According to Joe Biden on the steps of Downing Street, by travelling to the UK he ‘couldn’t be meeting with…
The BBC is falling short on its climate protest coverage
According to a YouGov poll this week 64 per cent have an unfavourable view of Just Stop Oil (only 17…
The housing crash we’re heading for might not be the one you think
Are house prices falling? The Halifax house price index, published today, is finally showing a significant year on year fall:…
Starmer’s right to roam pledge puts the Tories in a bind
Keir Starmer has come up with a good policy for once. He is promising to offer a Scottish-style right to roam…
Don’t be fooled by profiteering banks
What a handy distraction it makes for the banks to stand accused of closing down accounts held by Nigel Farage…
Why Boris’s critics might regret celebrating his downfall
Imagine a Tory prime minister who gave the liberal left almost everything that it wanted. Higher migration? Sure, let’s treble…
Don’t get too excited about deglobalisation
One difference between the rivalry with China and the cold war is that the Soviet Union was completely economically segregated…
Is Justin Trudeau right to blame Canadian wildfires on climate change?
Planes grounded in New York, people told to stay indoors – and an actress forced to leave the stage on…
Is AI all it’s cracked up to be?
So is Artificial intelligence (AI) to be a new engine of growth for the UK economy? That is Rishi Sunak’s hope. Ideally,…
The problem with calculating climate-related excess deaths
Another week, another extravagant claim for climatic doom goes unchallenged. Speaking on the Today programme on Wednesday morning, Dale Vince…
Abolishing inheritance tax would be a mistake for the Tories
Liz Truss’ fallen star has been rising again of late (at least a few degrees above the horizon) as gilt…
Could falling house prices be here to stay?
Not for the first time, a gulf has opened up between house price indices. This morning, Nationwide reports that average…
Brexit could fix inflation
Has food price inflation finally peaked? Figures released by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) this morning reveal that food prices…
