Hancock launches his quarantine crackdown
The search for the right balance on border policy continues, as Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced this afternoon a host…
How serious is No. 10 about immunity passports?
How seriously is the government considering immunity passports? It seemed we had a definitive answer in December when vaccines minister…
Capital punishment
Why wealth taxes don’t work
The EU’s vaccine opportunism will not be forgotten
At first, it sounded like empty rage. The European Union had spent all week making wild statements about controlling vaccine…
The Johnson & Johnson jab is a game changer
Good vaccine news has been pouring in today — this afternoon it was the turn of the Janssen vaccine, made by US…
Germany has just undermined the EU’s vaccine argument
Germany’s vaccine committee has advised the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine only be given to under-65s. The announcement marks a major twist in a…
Reuniting the States
The challenges ahead for President Biden go beyond governing
Donald Trump is impeached again – now what?
Today Donald Trump became the first president in United States history to be impeached twice. He was first impeached in…
Trump’s social media ban sets a dangerous precedent
Facebook and Twitter’s decision to suspend Donald Trump is, legally speaking, fairly clear-cut. Both are private companies which set the…
Wealth taxes are not the answer to our financial woes
Today the Wealth Tax Commission, an initiative involving the LSE, has recommended a ‘one-off’ 5 per cent levy on the…
Boris’s clash over masks
‘Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government programme,’ the free market economist Milton Friedman famously noted. So just how…
Denmark is creating a roadmap for mandatory vaccination
Could British residents be forced to have a Covid-19 vaccine? Yesterday Health Secretary Matt Hancock refused to rule out mandatory…
Britain’s economy has been bouncing back – but there’s a major caveat
Britain’s economy rebounded by a record 15.5 per cent between July and September, reflecting the relaxation of lockdown measures and increased consumer…
Joe Biden wins the election
Four days after a (much closer than predicted) election, American networks have called the race for Joe Biden, who has secured more…
Diary
American expats have a conundrum on election night: do you stay up to watch the results come in or do…
Trump doubles down on unfounded election claims
Tensions over the election outcome are escalating in the United States, as President Donald Trump repeated unsubstantiated claims of election fraud. Nearly…
The good and bad news for Trump about the US economy
With voting day finally here, what can the state of the US economy tell us about tonight’s result? While the United…
Backsliding on a lockdown end-date has begun already
Will England’s lockdown end on 2 December? Even before this morning’s media round there was good reason to suspect it…
Europe’s long Covid
Are we looking at a W-shaped recovery?
The antidote to Trump
Why I’m voting for Biden
How new Covid restrictions are stalling the economy
The theory behind a V-shaped recovery relied on the assumption that the economy would open up almost as quickly as…
Kamala Harris forgot who she was debating
Perhaps Senator Kamala Harris would have performed better last night if she had remembered who she was debating. It was…
Sunak warns of hardship
When Rishi Sunak was appointed Chancellor in February, he must never have imagined that his first address to the Conservative…
Will the economy recover enough to help Trump win?
It’s rather difficult to dissect or analyze policy areas from last night’s horrendous debate. But Freddy Gray and I attempt…
Rishi Sunak prepares UK economy for ‘permanent adjustment’
The UK economy is no longer hibernating; it is ‘adjusting’. Today’s measures announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak are designed to…
