Gossip is good for you… so I’m told
The Pope hates gossip. In his Christmas message to his Vatican advisers last year, Francis warned that it is ‘an…
Is the UK prepared to welcome one million migrants a year?
One million people will migrate to the UK every year this decade. The result: the UK population will grow by…
How to outsmart DeepSeek
For nearly a decade, the Chinese Communist Party has censored Winnie the Pooh, owing to internet memes comparing the slightly…
Will Chinese AI get the Treasury off the hook?
The launch of the Chinese chatbot DeepSeek has caused turmoil in the markets. The release of China’s newest AI –…
Revealed: GPs are over-diagnosing mental health conditions
Britain is turning sadness into sickness. More than four in five GPs believe that the ups and downs of normal life…
Employment suffers largest fall since pandemic
Rachel Reeve’s £25 billion National Insurance rise is beginning to bite. According to the latest data on our labour market,…
Is public sector headcount out of control?
Eyebrows were raised in the House of Lords this week as the Justice and Home Affairs Committee heard evidence that…
Luke Littler’s bland entourage
Luke ‘The Nuke’ Littler, born two weeks after the first iPhone was unveiled, stormed the Professional Darts Corporation world championships…
Why Britain’s benefits problem is likely to get worse
More than half of Britons receive more from the state than they pay in taxes, according to figures from the…
The many faces of pigs in blankets
There are not many phrases that offend me more than ‘pigs in blankets’. The correct name for this dish is,…
Muhammad has been a popular name for ages
Muhammad topped the list of most popular boy’s baby names in England and Wales last year, knocking Noah from first…
Does anyone know how many people live in Britain?
Can Britain trust its economic statistics? The nation’s arbiters of numerical truth, the Office for National Statistics, yesterday released what…
Labour should be cautious about celebrating the fall in net migration
How can you miss over 300,000 migrants? This morning the Office for National Statistics revised up its previous record high…
Inflation surge hits Britain’s ailing economy
Inflation rose to 2.3 per cent in the year to October, up from 1.7 per cent in September – its…
How many farmers will be hit by Labour’s inheritance tax raid?
Tens of thousands of farmers will descend on Westminster in their tractors tomorrow to protest at inheritance tax changes that…
There are now seven million migrant workers in the UK
For the first time ever there are seven million migrant workers in Britain’s job market. Figures released by the ONS…
How did pollsters get Trump’s victory so wrong?
Was Donald Trump’s win unexpected? Not if you followed the betting markets, which had Trump at a two-thirds chance of…
Could ADHD bankrupt English councils?
Every time a chancellor sits down after delivering their budget, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) releases their ‘economic and…
Britain’s population problem cannot be ignored
Never before have English and Welsh mothers produced so few babies. New data, released by the ONS yesterday, shows the number of…
Keir Starmer’s polling calamity
Politicians’ popularity only tends to go in one direction: down. John Major entered office in 1990 with a net satisfaction…
When will Rachel Reeves take responsibility for the economy?
Is Britain finally heading for growth? This week, the Treasury released its collection of short-term forecasts for the economy. The…
Why is the pound falling?
Is America about to enter a recession and take the world with it? Yesterday the pound was on track for…
Venn diagrams are the perfect tool for a politician
‘I just love Venn diagrams,’ Kamala Harris said in 2022. ‘It’s just something about those three circles, the analysis about…
Does Kamala Harris poll better against Donald Trump?
Kamala Harris seems overwhelmingly likely to replace Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee, having been given the blessing of both…
Is the great worker shortage finally coming to an end?
British workers have just experienced their highest pay rises for two years. With inflation remaining at the Bank of England’s…
