Why it’s good the NHS is paying more for medicines
We have caved in to bullying from President Trump. It will put NHS budgets under even more pressure. And the…
The Budget has created a £2 million house-price limit
It has lots of original features. It is close to good schools, and with a few cans of Farrow &…
Reeves’s Budget is dead on arrival
The Budget speech has no doubt been finalised. The red box has been dusted off. And the pie charts are…
Don’t write off Bitcoin yet
Bitcoin is crashing all over again, and it is taking the smaller crypto currencies down with it. It has fallen…
Are AI stocks about to crash?
Bitcoin has lost almost a quarter of its value. The tech-heavy Nasdaq index on Wall Street has started to fall.…
The damage from Reeves’s ‘exit tax’ idea has been done
It appears that Rachel Reeves has scrapped her plans for an ‘exit tax’ that would impose a huge levy on…
Will Rachel Reeves listen to easyJet’s warning?
We are all familiar with the different excuses for why we find ourselves stuck at the Spoons in Luton or…
Will London tempt the New Yorkers fleeing Mamdani?
As New York’s wealthy elite weigh up the options under their new ‘democratic socialist’ Mayor Zohran Mamdani, many of them…
The Bank of England won’t risk bailing Rachel Reeves out
After yet another dreadful week, the Chancellor Rachel Reeves must be praying the Bank of England helps her out by…
Nigel Farage is right to abandon tax cuts
Nigel Farage has shelved massive tax cuts in favour of slashing public spending in a bid to balance the books.…
A tariff alliance won’t stop Britain’s steel industry collapsing
The British steel industry has been staggering from one crisis to another for the whole of this year. Half of…
Reform is right to give up on ‘fag packet economics’
As Nigel Farage prepares to abandon pledges of up to £90 billion in tax cuts, there will be plenty of…
Don’t blame Trump for the crypto crash
Hundreds of billions have been wiped off the value of the crypto currencies. A prominent Ukrainian blogger and influencer on…
Why gold is at an all-time high
Gold is in the middle of what looks like an unstoppable bull run. It has already punched through $4,000 an ounce.…
Britain’s steel industry must die
It already faced tariffs in the United States, and it has been struggling to cope with some of the highest…
Britain can’t afford to lose AstraZeneca
It has already cancelled investments in Liverpool and Cambridge, while muttering darkly about moving its listing to New York and…
Ed Miliband can’t ban fracking forever
He wasn’t able to announce the £300 off household energy bills that was promised during the election campaign. Nor could…
Will Trump turn Gaza into the ‘Riviera of the Middle East’?
There are plenty of legitimate questions to be asked about the Trump-Blair peace plan for ending the conflict with Israel.…
Reeves needs to save the London Stock Exchange
Flutter, the gambling giant that owns Paddy Power, has already London, and the British chip designer ARM decided to float…
Why Trump shouldn’t bail out Milei
At the OECD, the IMF, and at Davos, there will probably be a few wry smiles, and a sense of…
Rachel Reeves’s ‘taxi tax’ plans show how desperate she is
It will at least give the cabbies something to genuinely complain about. Amid all the wheezes that Chancellor Rachel Reeves…
Trump’s steel tariffs will make Britain suffer
Over the course of President Trump’s state visit, we can expect lots of investments by the giants of American industry…
Elon Musk’s Tesla investment is a big gamble
Tesla does not look like a great investment right now. The competition from better and cheaper Chinese electric vehicles is…
Can Trump force Nato to get tough on Russian sanctions?
The pipelines would be sealed off. The supertankers would be left in the ports, and the wells would have to…
Even John Lewis is struggling in this Labour economy
It is a worker’s cooperative. It promotes sustainability, emphasises its social responsibility, invests in its people, and, of course, has…
