Does Rachel Reeves have to hike taxes?
Could Rachel Reeves’s ‘black hole’ be filled not through tax rises or even spending cuts but rather through getting an…
The real problem with Rachel Reeves’s Budget fiddle
Remember Gordon Brown’s ‘golden rule’ – that over the course of the economic cycle the only net borrowing he would…
Why the call for slavery reparations is a scam
It would be a shame if Britain were forced to leave the Commonwealth, given the great work it has done…
Will the Chancellor widen the public-private pension gap?
Could Rachel Reeves really be so brazen as to lumber private sector employers with having to pay national insurance contributions…
The UK’s debts are horrifyingly large
There is a big danger in today’s government borrowing figures for September being a little less bad than was expected…
Why Wes Streeting’s ‘prevention’ agenda is sinister
Who could possibly object to Wes Streeting’s plan to turn the NHS ‘from hospital to neighbourhood’ and from ‘sickness to…
Brits seem curiously untroubled by Labour’s Budget – at least for now
If the public is worried about what lies in store in Rachel Reeves’ first Budget, there are few signs of…
Should the UK copy Europe on standardised chargers?
You probably know the frustration: you are sitting there trying to stuff a charging cable into your phone before realising…
Tim Davie and the death of BBC ‘talent’
Has anyone ever come up with a better put-down for Nick Robinson? It is even better that it came from…
Is Labour’s Britain really an investor’s paradise?
So, is it really time in invest in Britain, as the heads of fourteen banks and other financial institutions have…
Labour will regret its war with P and O
Labour’s Employment Rights Bill promises workers flexible working, is supposed to protect them from unfair dismissal from day one of…
Ron DeSantis’s climate bill has nothing to do with Hurricane Milton
Hurricane Milton has left more than two million homes and businesses in Florida without power and threatens to be a…
How bad will Hurricane Milton be?
‘Astronomical’; the ‘strongest storm in a century’; ‘nearing the mathematical limit for a storm’ – the increasingly fraught descriptions of…
Does Britain really want less immigration?
The economy shrinks quarter by quarter; whole streets of houses in northern towns are abandoned, schools start closing for want…
Ordering water firms to cut bills is a mistake
Water companies have sweated the assets they were handed upon privatisation in the late 1980s. They have failed to invest properly,…
What’s the truth about ‘irregular migration’ levels?
Should we trust a new study that claims that the level of irregular migration in the UK has essentially not…
Private schools should be cheaper
Independent schools are an asset to the education system and they have been singled out by Labour for a tax…
Is there really a private school exodus?
Will Labour actually gain some revenue for slapping VAT on school fees, or is it heading for fiscal embarrassment as…
What has become of the Wellcome Collection?
In 2022 the Wellcome Collection caused a stir by closing its Medicine Man exhibition on the grounds that it was…
Ed Miliband’s ‘new era’ for energy policy is anything but
How the ground is shifting now that Labour finds itself in government and is actually responsible for UK energy policy.…
You can’t deal rationally with the rail unions
The idea that the government had somehow managed to draw a line under the rail strikes by offering drivers and…
Badenoch is the best the Tories have got
What an ordeal. If there is one thing more trying than watching a leader’s speech at a party conference, it…
The uncomfortable truth about the end of UK coal
Should we celebrate the end of Ratcliffe-on-Soar, Britain’s last coal-fired power station, whose boilers went cold on Monday, bringing to…
Can anything stop Germany’s decline?
Brexit is, we’re told, a disaster that shaved a hefty slice off UK economic growth. But there does seem to…
Boris Johnson has just proven he was unfit to be prime minister
For the past five years, I have been in something of a conflict: was Boris Johnson an unconventional but essentially…
