Gove’s ‘war on landlords’ is not going to plan
Levelling up the housing market, it is fair to say, is not quite going according to plan. Rents in the…
Jeremy Hunt should listen to James Dyson
All Sir James Dyson wanted was to do what hundreds of business people and lobbyists have done before him: spend…
Ed Miliband’s dangerous net zero fantasy
Ed Miliband set Labour back a decade when he not only failed to win the 2015 general election but went…
The middle classes let Banksy get away with vandalism
This is a tale of two murals: one painted on the side of a building in Greenwich by an artist…
How WFH engineers caused an air traffic control meltdown
How lovely that engineers working for National Air Traffic Services (Nats) can work from home rather than having to slog…
Who is going to pay for Rishi’s gas power stations?
The problem with intermittency of wind and solar energy is so obvious that you wonder why is has taken the…
‘Levelling up’ is finished
Just what has the government done to try to retain the Red Wall vote? It seemed when they won a majority…
Why are UK shares doing so badly?
What is wrong with UK shares? While the US, European and Japanese stock markets reach new highs, UK markets are…
Is Amnesty right that Britain has a black mould epidemic?
Are large numbers of children in Britain being killed by black mould in their homes? That seems to be the…
The farce of Drax’s wood pellets
When is the government going to stop pretending that chopping down trees in North American forests and shipping them across…
How Hunt’s Budget could put Starmer in a bind
Time was when a chancellor had to resign for leaking the Budget – Hugh Dalton famously lost his job after…
John Kerry has unwittingly exposed the climate change wheeze
Here’s a good wheeze: prod every last inch of your own country, open the taps and become the world’s largest…
Can the EU survive another five years of Ursula von der Leyen?
Ursula von der Leyen came to the post of President of the European Commission five years ago with a less…
Unreliable renewables will make energy more costly
It is of course good news that the Ofgem price cap for a dual fuel household bill will fall from…
The failed Trident missile launch is a big embarrassment for Britain
With Keir Starmer having rid the Labour party of its Corbynite doctrines, Britain’s independent nuclear deterrent would not be expected…
Andrew Bailey: Britain’s recession may already be over
We’re not cutting interest rates because we think the recession may already be over and we’re not even sure we…
Michael Gove’s holiday let crackdown could trash the tourist industry
Just why did Michael Gove campaign for Brexit? I thought he was selling us a future with a more entrepreneurial…
Did lockdowns cause more harm than good?
The question of whether lockdowns caused more problems than they solved will be picked over for years to come, even…
Shoppers are falling out of love with online shopping
Maybe the Office for National Statistics should stop seasonally adjusting its data. That is the lesson from today’s retail sales figures,…
Britain’s unemployment figures can’t be trusted
Britain’s unemployment statistics are unreliable, and the Office of National Statistics is experimenting with a new method of counting the…
Trump’s madness will strengthen Nato
‘Appalling and unhinged’ was Joe Biden’s (or at least the White House’s) verdict on Donald Trump’s remarks that he might…
The renewables bubble has burst
It wasn’t so long ago that Orsted was being held up as an example of how oil and gas companies…
Fact check: Tim Spector’s frightening climate claims
The BBC just can’t seem to stop itself trying to frighten people over climate change. On Tuesday morning it was…
Will Londoners fall for Sadiq Khan’s election bribes?
Taxpayers are being treated to a clutch of pre-election bribes from a politician who only a few months ago was…
