Ross Clark

The problem with the UK's Russian clamp down

4 March 2022 2:00 am

I’m no apologist for oligarchs, whether they be from Russia or anywhere else. I have been writing for years about…

Will the West boycott Russian oil?

3 March 2022 2:00 am

The price of Brent crude exceeded $112 a barrel this morning. There is, as yet, no interruption in supply from…

Will the West shut Russia out of Swift?

25 February 2022 11:45 pm

You may never have heard of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications — or at least not by its…

The Ukraine invasion is good news for Wall Street

25 February 2022 1:25 am

Don’t be fooled by the pictures that will shortly start to emerge of traders apparently tearing their hair out against…

It's too late to break Europe's gas reliance on Russia

22 February 2022 11:39 pm

So, Nord Stream 2 will not be plugged into Germany’s gas grid. A little surprisingly, Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been…

Storm Eunice has nothing to do with climate change

18 February 2022 10:50 pm

I sat tight and braced myself for the worst this morning — not high winds but for the Today programme…

Should we vaccinate children against Covid?

18 February 2022 1:00 am

Is there any point in vaccinating five to 11-year-olds against Covid? For months the policy across the UK was not…

Are ethnic minorities still more likely to get Covid?

15 February 2022 1:45 am

Is there a genetic element to the risk of being infected with Covid — and are some disadvantaged ethnic groups…

How high could interest rates go?

11 February 2022 2:15 am

The last time that US inflation hit 7.5 per cent, Ronald Reagan was a recently-elected president. And he, older readers…

Is scrapping self-isolation safe?

11 February 2022 1:14 am

Is now the right time to lift all Covid restrictions, as the Prime Minister suggested he might do from 24…

A windfall tax on oil giants would harm – not help – pensioners

8 February 2022 11:35 pm

Look up this year’s performance of the shares and bonds which make up your pension fund and you will see…

Make capitalism real again

6 February 2022 10:50 pm

The emergence of Covid provoked a worldwide economic crash. That lasted a mere four weeks. By the time western countries…

The Bank of England's interest rate hike isn't enough

4 February 2022 12:24 am

There would have been times when the news ‘Bank of England doubles interest rates’ would have been met with a…

Two years on, what's the evidence for lockdown?

3 February 2022 6:00 pm

Did lockdowns save lives? We will never have a definitive answer to this vital question because it was impossible to…

Why should we listen to celebrities over Joe Rogan?

2 February 2022 2:05 am

I’m boycotting Spotify. I am doing this for the same reason as I don’t have a Netflix subscription: I refuse…

The NHS vaccine mandate was bound to fail

1 February 2022 12:00 am

Health Secretary Sajid Javid now looks set to drop his plans to sack unvaccinated NHS staff. It was almost inevitable…

The abandoned revolution: has the government given up on Brexit?

29 January 2022 9:00 am

Has the government lost interest in Brexit?

Why Denmark has called for the end of Covid restrictions

28 January 2022 12:48 am

England has been described by some as an outlier in that the government is lifting Plan B restrictions in spite…

Don’t bet on interest rates rising

27 January 2022 6:35 pm

So is this really it: the end of the era of virtually zero interest rates? There was a marked pullback…

Did Plan B work?

27 January 2022 1:50 am

Today is England’s last day under Plan B restrictions, brought in by the government at the beginning of last month…

Entitled motorists have ruled the roads for far too long

25 January 2022 12:00 am

Last week it was ‘operation red meat’, designed to recapture wavering Tory voters. This week something very different: changes to…

Ousting Boris Johnson now would be a mistake

19 January 2022 10:43 pm

There must come a time when even Beth Rigby starts to ask whether she is too fixatedon a small staff…

Banning tomato ketchup sachets won't save the planet

11 January 2022 11:20 pm

Warning to the working classes: the government is coming after your pleasures again. It is you who are being blamed…

Does Boris believe in Brexit?

5 January 2022 11:00 pm

For once, yesterday’s Downing Street press conference included a worthwhile question, and not of the ‘why aren’t you locking us…

The problem with 'vaccine equity'

4 January 2022 5:03 am

‘A stain on our soul’. That was how Gordon Brown, in his latest missive on the subject, described the failure…