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Labour’s new cabinet divide

2 November 2024 9:00 am

There were no civil servants present when ministers gathered for their weekly cabinet meeting on Tuesday. The reason? It was…

Rachel Reeves is taking us back to the 1970s

2 November 2024 9:00 am

The first fiscal event to be delivered by a female Chancellor of the Exchequer is a landmark moment, but in…

Still hunting for a Trump trade? Gold may have further to rise

2 November 2024 9:00 am

Anyone hunting for a ‘Trump trade’ at this late stage has probably missed the US election bus. If you bought…

The Murdochs’ next move: Rightmove

28 September 2024 9:00 am

Next month’s Budget tax raids on capital have provoked a festival of creative doom-mongering on the fringes of Labour’s conference…

Why people would hate a property tax

14 September 2024 9:00 am

My friend Tim Leunig is a cerebral thinker of the best kind. Though not party-political, he has worked for Tory…

How big business pushed up vet bills

31 August 2024 9:00 am

I was on my way to a Pilates class when I spotted Paul waving at me urgently from across the…

Who’ll be blamed for Rachel Reeves’s tax hikes?

3 August 2024 9:00 am

Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt entered Downing Street with one mission: to clean up the public finances after Liz Truss’s…

‘Nationalise Google!’: the techno-optimists hoping to save the world

20 July 2024 9:00 am

Future House is a weird private members’ club. There’s a mattress on the floor for napping, a bathtub designed to…

Abba’s genius was never to write a happy love song

25 May 2024 9:00 am

Benny and Björn may have composed some of the catchiest tunes ever, but even their bounciest melodies are ballasted with melancholy

In praise of Harry Cobden

2 December 2023 9:00 am

The beauty of mid-range products

4 November 2023 9:00 am

Once or twice, when on a crowded overnight flight, I have taken a sneaky stroll through the different cabins for…

Britain has an entitlement problem

9 September 2023 9:00 am

An Institute for Fiscal Studies paper, published at the end of last month, makes grim reading. Through the prism of…

Portrait of the week

15 July 2023 9:00 am

Price caps are a slippery slope

3 June 2023 9:00 am

Sometimes it’s the little things that depress most. I groaned last week to hear the news item. The government is…

Why do people assume I am posh?

13 May 2023 9:00 am

If we cram any more doctors into our spare rooms we can put a sign outside advertising NHS accommodation. We…

The UK is right to keep faith in crypto

1 February 2023 10:36 pm

It will be a charter for fraudsters. It will usher in an open-season mindset for money launderers and criminals. And…

Has Hunt restored the government’s fiscal credibility?

18 October 2022 4:23 am

Jeremy Hunt set out at the start of the weekend with one goal in mind: that when the gilt markets…

Truss says no to spending cuts. Here’s the caveat

12 October 2022 11:44 pm

The mini-Budget was a spending spree. The ‘medium-term fiscal plan’ was meant to explain the funding. But what exactly is…

City slickers’ reaction to Kwarteng’s unfunded plan is entirely rational

1 October 2022 9:00 am

‘Fury at the City slickers betting against UK plc,’ shouted the Daily Mail on Tuesday, after Monday’s mayhem saw the…

Are you feeling lucky?

1 October 2022 9:00 am

There was an article recently in the increasingly woke but still useful New Scientist which attempted to gauge the degree…

Will Liz Truss take on the IMF?

28 September 2022 6:25 am

Tonight the International Monetary Fund has weighed in on the UK’s mini-Budget, offering a direct rebuke of Liz Truss and…