Ed Miliband can’t keep blaming Iran for high energy costs
Sooner or later it is going to dawn on Ed Miliband and the rest of the government that anger over…
Has Trump averted an energy crisis?
Have markets and governments horribly underestimated the fallout from the Iran war, or is it the doomsters who have got…
Why the Iran oil crisis might not be as bad as we feared
Have markets and governments around the world horribly under-estimated the fallout from the war in Iran? That is the claim made…
This is how Brexit dies
This is the way that Brexit ends: not with a bang but with a whimpering submission to EU standards on…
Does Rachel Reeves know anything about AI?
Like Harold Wilson and his ‘white heat of technology’, Rachel Reeves is presumably hoping that blathering on about AI and…
Paul Ehrlich’s bad ideas won’t go away
I am sorry to hear of the death of Stanford University Professor of Biology Paul R. Ehrlich at the age…
Net zero is destroying Britain’s car industry
Could there be any greater vindication for the government’s policy of pushing us to buy electric vehicles than the crisis…
Slavery reparations will be the next Chagos betrayal
Well, who would have guessed? Emboldened by Mauritius’s success in persuading Keir Starmer to surrender the Chagos Islands – which…
What will Ed Miliband do when the lights go out?
How many times has Ed Miliband told us that his renewable energy policies were helping to free us from ‘fossil…
Stop sneering at the Brits stuck in Dubai
Who cares about vacuous influencers whose ghastly apartments in Dubai are being struck by Iranian missiles, wiping the smile off…
Labour’s Gorton defeat shows that Keir Starmer is finished
In the end it wasn’t even close. The Greens won the Manchester Gorton and Denton by-election with some to spare,…
Just how bad are Nato’s armies?
Given the relative sizes of their economies, one might conclude that Russia would quake before the military might of Europe’s…
What does the ONS mean by living in ‘good health’?
Living longer but spending more of our lives in ill health. That is the rather shocking picture presented by the…
A homegrown Visa card won’t save Britain in a crisis
It is finally dawning on the government and the banking industry that it is not such a good idea to…
Morocco should be allowed to cull its stray dogs
Imagine if spectators at the London Olympics had to gingerly make their way past loose pit bull terriers and XL…
Ed Miliband’s delusional energy deal with California
What a pair Ed Miliband and California governor Gavin Newsom make. Both seem to suffer from the delusion that they…
Don’t blame AI for this jobs bloodbath
No wonder government ministers in recent weeks have started nodding along with fears that AI will take our jobs, with…
Trump’s America isn’t the outlier on greenhouse gases
Irresponsible Trump, responsible China: that is the message the BBC’s climate editor seemed to be sending us by juxtaposing the…
Jim Ratcliffe has a point about Britain
Jim Ratcliffe is not a polished media performer, and neither does he have an accurate set of UK demographic statistics…
Ed Miliband’s green promises are coming back to haunt him
It looks as if £300 will end up being to Ed Miliband what 45 minutes was to Tony Blair: the…
Will the Mandelson affair make loyalty a crime?
Nothing excuses the manner of Peter Mandelson’s communications with Jeffrey Epstein both before and after the latter’s conviction for sex…
The glaring flaw in Keir Starmer’s AI plan
Like Harold Wilson and his ill-defined ‘white heat of technology’, Keir Starmer has latched on to artificial intelligence as the…
Alton Towers is right to ban ADHD queue-jumpers
That will teach people who seek a diagnosis of ADHD in the hope that it will bring them various advantages…
Ed Miliband is killing Aberdeen
‘It’s Scotland’s oil,’ cried the slogan of the SNP in the 1970s when the party first began a serious drive…
Ed Miliband’s warm homes scheme is good news for cowboy builders
The cowboys must be licking their lips. Ed Miliband has come up with yet another green homes scheme to chuck…
