The inevitable horror of an Ed Miliband premiership
Logic, sadly, points to one all-too-likely victor from the Labour leadership crisis: Ed Miliband. On the principle of ‘he who…
Zack Polanski’s council tax blunder shows he isn’t fit to lead the Greens
What a lucky fellow Zack Polanski is, in that his little council tax issue has come to light on the…
Nigel Farage has inherited Boris Johnson’s Red Wall problem
The thing about white working-class voters, as Boris Johnson discovered in 2019 and Nigel Farage is finding out now, is…
What happened to the Green wave?
No amount of Labour spin will disguise the party’s dreadful night, but the hefty losses of seats in English council…
Don’t feel sorry for the business leaders who backed Labour
Just what were business leaders expecting when so many of them sucked up to Labour before the 2024 general election?…
Why can’t Germany extradite the Madeleine McCann suspect?
I make no suggestion as to whether Christian Brueckner, the convicted rapist suspected of kidnapping and killing Madeleine McCann, is…
The state should keep its hands off your pension
The worst thing about the government’s plans to force pension providers to invest their money in particular assets is that…
Reeves is using Iran as an excuse to get closer to the EU
Never let a good crisis go to waste, as they say. And Rachel Reeves has made it quite clear that…
An energy bill bailout would be a terrible idea
Liz Truss’s greatest fiscal sin was her Energy Price Guarantee. True, markets didn’t like her tax cuts unmatched by spending…
Tariff refunds are a nightmare for Trump’s economy
Donald Trump’s second presidency began with a blaze of executive orders which horrified and impressed in equal measure. It also begged…
Miliband’s fight against North Sea drilling is far from over
What have North Sea oil and gas production and grammar school education got in common? Both are subject to a…
The high cost of Ed Miliband’s ‘cheap’ renewable energy
First the good news. Some commercial users may be enjoying free electricity at some point this summer – or better…
Zack Polanski’s Green party bubble won’t last forever
It was bound to happen sooner or later, but coming at the beginning of a local election campaign in which…
The ONS should not work from home
Our invertebrate government has struck again. Given the chance to show a bit of backbone in the face of demands…
Trump gets Chamberlain wrong
Like US wartime presidents before him, Donald Trump made a priority of, and has succeeded, in attaining air superiority over…
What’s behind Britain’s blue badge boom?
How miraculous. Britain is full of people with devastating afflictions, with millions apparently unable to walk a few yards from…
The truth behind Miliband’s North Sea drilling U-turn
At first sight it might seem like the triumph of reason over ideology. The Times is reporting that Ed Miliband…
Reform will regret its commitment to the pensions triple lock
Reform UK has just made what could turn out to be an enormous error. Its Treasury spokesman, Robert Jenrick, has committed…
How Ed Miliband could actually profit from the energy crisis
According to Ed Miliband and Bridget Phillipson, motorists are paying more than they need to at the pumps because of…
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…
