Economy
Javier Milei’s radical reforms could start to heal Argentina’s economy
Argentina has spent most of its 200-year history in deficit; no other country currently owes the International Monetary Fund a…
The beauty of mid-range products
Once or twice, when on a crowded overnight flight, I have taken a sneaky stroll through the different cabins for…
Will the collapse of councils be the next great scandal?
Last month India managed to land a spacecraft on the moon for a third of the price of refurbishing Hammersmith…
Britain has an entitlement problem
An Institute for Fiscal Studies paper, published at the end of last month, makes grim reading. Through the prism of…
Sunak can’t blame landlords for not stopping illegal immigration
Small companies will face massive fines for not checking the papers of everyone they hire. Landlords will be put out…
Reasons to be cheerful? Yes, I think I see some
‘Always be cheerful’ – a motto to which I’ll return in the final item – speaks to my natural demeanour.…
Jonathan Ashworth: ‘We are at risk of a lost generation’
Jonathan Ashworth on Labour’s plans to cut unemployment
‘We’ve got to hold our nerve’: Rishi Sunak’s BBC interview
As mortgage rates surge and a new Opinium poll finds Labour’s lead has jumped to 18 points, Rishi Sunak appeared…
Red Rishi: the Prime Minister’s political makeover
The Tories are trying on Labour’s clothes
The UK’s treatment of Activision shows it is closed for business
It was, admittedly, not quite as thrilling as an action sequence from Call of Duty. Even so, the statement put…
What Miriam Cates gets right – and wrong – about declining fertility
Fulfil your civic duty. Get married. Have children. That was the message from Miriam Cates, the increasingly prominent Conservative backbencher, to guests…
The £5.4 billion government surplus masks a larger economic issue
There have been celebrations this morning about a government surplus of £5.4 billion last month, and people are even talking…
Government borrowing hits £27.4 billion
Rishi Sunak ruffled his own party’s feathers last week when – in reference to last autumn’s market turmoil – he…
The truth about corporate taxes
I’ve chosen to write about corporate tax rates this week not because they’re the sexiest subject available but because –…
What makes a ‘crisis’?
In his picture from 1932, ‘Derrière la gare Saint-Lazare’, Henri Cartier-Bresson caught the moment when a man in a hat…
What will the Halloween Budget bring?
What will the Halloween Budget bring?
Divided they fall: can the Tories save themselves?
Seldom has support for a government fallen so far, so fast. Polls show that 24 per cent of the public…
Truss is hurting the free-market cause
In theory, I should be delighted about the Liz Truss project. She is saying the things I’ve been arguing for…
Is Credit Suisse the tornado on the banking horizon?
Headlines about ‘alarm over CreditSuisse’ might be read as a sign of normality in financial news, rather than the reverse.…
Maybe Nanny does know best
Not least among the shivers down my spine as I listen to Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng pump up the…
City slickers’ reaction to Kwarteng’s unfunded plan is entirely rational
‘Fury at the City slickers betting against UK plc,’ shouted the Daily Mail on Tuesday, after Monday’s mayhem saw the…