Climate doom is not science
The costs of not dealing with climate change are, of course, much higher than the costs of dealing with it.…
The day net zero died
Quietly this afternoon, the government’s last remaining hope of achieving net zero by 2050 drained away. BP has abandoned its…
Starmer’s workers’ rights U-turn is a small victory for business
A psychoanalyst might have some ideas as to why Keir Starmer’s thoughts have suddenly turned to the subject of unfair…
The EV charging tax is the coward’s way out for Rachel Reeves
One moral of the Budget is to beware of governments offering you incentives to buy a particular kind of car.…
The Covid Inquiry has ducked the most important questions
The biggest lesson to come out of the first report of the official Covid Inquiry is what a mistake it…
The fatal flaw in Shabana Mahmood’s migration plan
Today we will learn exactly what Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood meant when she hinted last week that the government would…
Who do junior doctors think should fund their pay rise?
I know doctors have a long training and have to absorb a lot of knowledge before they are let loose…
Has Rachel Reeves crashed the economy?
If Rachel Reeves was hoping for a glimmer of good news in today’s GDP figures, she has been left disappointed.…
Starmer must not give in to the Waspi women
If nothing else, the government is providing us with a masterclass in how to lose control of public spending. A…
Rachel Reeves is dragging Britain into a productivity doom loop
Just how much more desperate can Rachel Reeves get? Giving an even heftier clue to Radio 5 listeners on Monday…
The taxman is coming for your electric car
Sooner or later it is going to dawn on the drivers of electric cars that they have been benefitting from…
The ‘John Lewis approach’ won’t fix workshy Britain
Like the John Lewis Partnership he used to run, Sir Charlie Mayfield, who has just completed the government’s ‘Keep Britain…
Budget tax rises will mark the beginning of the long end for Labour
So just what was the point in dragging political journalists out of bed to be addressed by Rachel Reeves in…
The hypocrisy of Labour’s international ‘greenwashing’
There can be no more Panglossian document than the UK international climate finance results published by the government last month.…
Is extinction going extinct?
It is getting pretty bitter in the world of evolutionary biology, and it could come down to the survival of…
Is Reeves plotting to short-change the self-employed?
It seems pretty certain now that having flirted with just about every tax rise under the sun, Rachel Reeves is…
Has the AI jobs bloodbath finally arrived?
There has been much wallowing over news that Amazon and UPS have each just cut 14,000 jobs. Some Amazon employees…
Why was Hadush Kebatu paid £500 to leave Britain?
We don’t yet know what Rachel Reeves is planning to do with the welfare bill in her Budget. Will she…
No wonder Labour has failed to build more houses
Should anyone really be surprised at the House Builders’ Federation’s (HBF) warning that the government has little chance of hitting…
Rachel Reeves is doing her best to paralyse the housing market
We are still four weeks away from the Budget and already we have had virtually every tax rise floated before…
Health tourism is good for Britain
Once, foreign nationals came to Britain to freeload on the NHS. Today, UK residents visit other countries for medical treatment.…
Labour is as much to blame for the migrant hotel scandal as the Tories
Imagine if a government had set out deliberately to stir up the public over illegal migration, or perhaps to do…
Welcome to Balkan Britain
Never has a Welsh Senedd election seemed so interesting; the Caerphilly by election marks a true turning point in history.…
It won’t be long before pensioners are out-earning workers
Oh, the horrid injustice of it all! By the skin of their teeth, pensioners on the state pension and with…
It’s ridiculous for Labour to blame tax rises on Farage
It is day three of Labour’s latest strategy: to try to blame Nigel Farage for the forthcoming tax rises in…
