Is Sunak really a big state believer?
There’s something strange happening in Tory politics. It’s not surprising to see leadership candidates taking special aim at the current…
Cakeconomics
Why Rishi Sunak quit
Rishi Sunak will be missed as Chancellor
We will never know the counterfactuals of the past few years. What if another MP had been made Chancellor when…
Wading in
Does Joe Biden want to protect women’s rights – or his majority?
Putin’s bonanza
Is the Kremlin winning the sanctions war?
The Tories are picking inflation winners and losers
Inflation rose to 9.1 per cent on the year in May, taking the UK’s consumer price index to a 40-year-high.…
Is Britain getting back to work?
The economic lesson of the week is that headlines are often deceiving. Yesterday’s GDP update for the month of April…
Boris can’t wish the tax burden away
After an uncomfortably close confidence vote for the Prime Minister on Monday, Boris Johnson’s premiership still hobbles along. But for…
‘Famine is part of Russia’s strategy’
President Zelensky’s economic adviser on the reality of Putin’s tactics
What the Sue Gray report tells us about the ‘party elite’
Britain’s ‘party elite’ – perhaps better-termed ‘Covid elite’ – were hiding in plain sight throughout the pandemic. Even before the…
Mervyn King: Needless money-printing fuelled inflation
Some £500 billion was printed by the Bank of England during the pandemic – a staggering sum that caused very…
Unemployment is low – so why aren’t wages improving?
For the first time ever, the number of UK job vacancies – now almost 1.3 million – has overtaken the…
Andrew Bailey’s inflation excuses have been exposed
This afternoon the Bank of England’s governor Andrew Bailey appeared, as he has done many times before, in front of…
The perils of ‘Bidenflation’
Has inflation peaked in the United States? Today’s update from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the annual rate of…
Are we heading towards a recession?
The US Federal Reserve yesterday announced its biggest interest rate rise in 22 years. Today, the Bank of England follows…
New York has become the city that never eats
Is there anything more extraordinary than dining in New York City? Whetheryou’re sitting down for the Michelin star experience of…
Have I cured my arachnophobia?
I’ve been an arachnophobe my whole life. I can’t remember a time when videos of spiders, or even photos or…
Is this the end of borrow and spend?
Since the spring statement last week, Rishi Sunak has been dealing with complaints from all sides: the right have been…
Cold truth
What is really to blame for the cost of living crisis?
Rishi Sunak’s energy bill dilemma
This morning’s revelation that the UK economy grew 0.8 per cent in January, the fastest growth since April last year, is…
Will Russia’s economy collapse?
How quickly can a G20 economy collapse? That question has come to the fore this week, as the world has…
Paralysing Russia’s central bank could cripple Putin’s plans
Pushing Russia out of Swift, the international bank transfer system, has long been spoken of as one of the most…
Is Britain prepared for the cost of sanctions?
Sanctions hit both sides: this is a point that Joe Biden has made to Americans and Olaf Scholz is making…
Germany’s canning of Nord Stream 2 will hit Putin hard
Vladimir Putin’s threats towards Ukraine have, in part, been an operation in stoking divisions throughout the West. As James Forsyth…
Waiting game
Who really controls the NHS?
