VAT

Have you had the school gate VAT chat?

8 June 2024 9:00 am

Another day closer to the general election and I’m at my daughter’s prep school in Oxfordshire. As has come to…

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…

Responsible Rishi's Budget balancing act

27 October 2021 4:00 am

Rishi Sunak has released photos of his Budget prep, as he prepares to stand up in the House of Commons…

Tinkering with VAT won’t make us trust the government

27 June 2020 9:00 am

Should Chancellor Rishi Sunak cut VAT as an emergency stimulus to the consumer economy? When Labour’s Alistair Darling made a…

James McAvoy is wrong – the arts are better off without subsidy

14 March 2015 9:00 am

The season of cringe-making acceptance speeches at arts awards ceremonies is nearly over, thank heavens. But it hasn’t passed without…

The Spectator’s notes

13 July 2013 9:00 am

Andrew Mitchell was forced to resign as the Tory Chief Whip last autumn because he called policemen at the Downing…