Politicians, not ChatGPT, caused the recruitment slump
The machines are already smarter and better organised than humans. They never ask for a pay rise, and they don’t…
The welfare state has become absurdly dysfunctional
Britain’s 12.9 million pensioners are better off financially than they have ever been, and certainly compared with the rest of…
Is the Bank of England turning on Rachel Reeves?
It appears that the Chancellor Rachel Reeves does not have many supporters left. The bond markets don’t think much of…
Without non-doms, who will pay for Labour’s bloated state?
We are not the fastest growing economy in the G7, even though the Labour party promised that we would be.…
Reform can go further in its plan to woo back non-doms
We will hear plenty of familiar criticisms of the plan unveiled by Reform yesterday to bring non-doms, as wealthy foreigners…
Your pension fund is right to flee Labour’s Britain
One of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s few big ideas for boosting growth was to persuade pension funds to invest more of…
Why the markets don’t care much about Israel and Iran
As missiles fly across the Middle East as Israel and Iran embark on what could well become a wider regional…
Britain doesn’t need more affordable housing
This afternoon’s spending review mostly consisted of rehashed announcements, and in fact Tory plans that had been quickly rebadged. But…
Will America and China call a truce in their trade war?
High-level talks have started in London today between American and Chinese officials aimed at dialling down the trade tensions between…
Is the London Stock Exchange under threat?
When the fintech giant Wise floated its shares on the London Stock Exchange in 2021 it was widely seen as…
Starmer doesn’t have long to save his US trade deal
It has only been a few weeks since the UK agreed to a trade deal with the United States that…
How Elon Musk profited from his time in government
Nobody wants to buy his cars anymore. He has been too distracted to pay any attention to his companies and…
What’s the point of fining Thames Water?
That should teach it a lesson. The utility giant Thames Water has today been hit with a massive £122.7 million…
Britain’s America deal is paying off
Exports would be impossible. The supply chains would be snarled up. And trade restrictions would destroy the economics of the…
The EU could pay a high price for not settling with Trump
The deals have been settled. The exceptions have been made. And supply chains have started to return to normal, while…
Will Wall Street jitters stop Trump’s budget bill?
Donald Trump has already caved in on tariffs, pausing the ‘retaliatory levies’ he announced on ‘Liberation Day’ at the beginning…
David Lammy is wrong to halt trade talks with Israel
In recent weeks, Britain has wrapped up trade deals with India and the United States and is on the lookout…
The City backlash against Reform has begun
It will be like Liz Truss on roller skates. The next election may still be four years away, and the…
When will the EU do a deal with Trump?
China has wrapped up a pretty good trade deal. The UK has managed to agree to lift some of the…
China has won the trade war with Trump
This weekend, the United States struck a deal with China that will see American tariffs on Beijing’s exports come back…
Is Starmer’s Trump trade deal the win he thinks it is?
Keir Starmer says it is a ‘fantastic, historic’ day after signing a trade deal with the United States, but is…
Goodbye Warren Buffett
It was a mark of respect. After Warren Buffett, who can lay claim to the title of the greatest investor…
This Indian trade deal could be a disaster for Labour
It should have been a triumph. We might not have managed to get a trade with the United States over…
Will falling interest rates save Rachel Reeves?
There is not much that Chancellor Rachel Reeves can look forward to right now. The Labour party has just been…
Have the markets stopped caring about Trump’s tariffs?
President Trump’s imposition of huge tariffs on everything America imports on ‘Liberation Day’ at the start of this month has…
