Trump’s tariffs are just bizarre
They would restore manufacturing, force trade barriers to be taken down, and allow new industries to be created. There have…
The minimum wage is too high
Council tax is going up. Train fares are rising. Broadband will cost more, and so will electricity and water. April…
Starmer’s costly failure to get a Trump tariff carve-out
The UK should have been doing everything possible to secure an exemption from Trump’s tariffs. We could have scrapped the…
Give holiday home owners a break
If you have had your eye on a bungalow along the Devon coast, a cottage in the New Forest, or…
Who’s going to miss WH Smith?
WH Smith is opting for the oldest trick in the corporate playbook. It is changing its name. It might have…
If Bailey won’t call for radical growth reforms, no one will
It was hardly the message Chancellor Rachel Reeves would have been looking for a day before a Spring Statement which…
Is the Trump Slump over?
Tariffs would destroy supply chains and drive up inflation. Elon Musk’s savage cuts would bring the government machine grinding to…
The flaw in Labour’s plan to fix potholes
Ahead of last summer’s election, the Labour party made lots of grand promises about how it was going to fix…
China’s BYD could kill Tesla
Tesla and its hyper-active boss Elon Musk are having a bad month. On both sides of the Altantic, there have…
It’s impossible to make Scottish politicians financially literate
Even the OECD has finally noticed. The Paris-based policy forum is normally always in favour of higher taxes and more…
It’s been a poor five years from Andrew Bailey
The pound has not collapsed. You can still trade shares, bonds and currencies in the City of London. And inflation,…
Why John Lewis’s profits have soared
Growth has ground to a halt, manufacturing is collapsing, and the government is desperately scratching around for ways to save…
Trump’s Tesla stunt won’t help Musk
Tesla’s share price has halved, sales have slumped, boycotts are being organised and Chinese rivals are ready to steal the…
Does Trump want a stock market crash?
There ‘could be a recession’, said President Trump over the weekend with the kind of nonchalant shrug that suggested he…
Europe could pay the price for Germany’s debt shake-up
Germany has finally decided to join the party – but Europe may come to regret it. After two decades of…
The fatal flaws in Trump’s crypto reserve plan
President Trump was very bullish about his decision over the weekend to create a ‘crypto reserve’. It will legitimise crypto…
Will Labour MPs scupper a US-UK trade deal?
A UK-US trade deal is on the table. On a surprisingly successful trip to Washington, US President Donald Trump made…
Will Trump’s ‘golden visas’ threaten Rachel Reeves’s tax plans?
Fed up with Rachel Reeves’s tax rises, with the calls for wealth and mansion taxes, and the loss of non-dom…
Trump is doing us a favour by targeting our dreadful tech laws
It will be an unacceptable intrusion on our sovereignty. And it will pave the way for American domination of the…
How France killed its start-up culture
It would encourage digitally savvy entrepreneurs. It would be a hub for artificial intelligence. And it would encourage a wave…
Is X still worth £38 billion? Elon Musk thinks so
When Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022, his many critics gleefully predicted a catastrophe. We were told that everyone would…
Does it matter if Rachel Reeves fibbed on her CV?
Rachel Reeves is in the headlines again, for all the wrong reasons. The Chancellor’s entry in Who’s Who lists her…
Does Rachel Reeves’s industrial strategy even exist?
The Labour government was pinning everything on an ambitious industrial strategy to boost growth. It was meant to make the…
Cheaper mortgages won’t save Britain from recession
Electricity bills are going up. Netflix is adding a couple of pounds a month to the price of a standard…
Vance is right, Europe is smothering AI
They won’t have liked the message or the messenger. With characteristic bluntness, the American vice president J. D. Vance tore…
