Miliband’s empty energy promise
Though not quite up there with history’s great political texts, Ed Miliband’s letter this week to the director of the…
Why did the Grenfell Inquiry take so long to tell us what we know already?
Predictably enough, and not unreasonably, the 1700-page final report into the Grenfell disaster apportions the bulk of the blame with…
Why is it so hard to buy a petrol car?
Is it really any surprise that car manufacturers have started refusing to sell us petrol cars? According to Robert Forrester,…
Labour want to Frenchify the economy
It is not that long ago that the new Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced that his would be the…
Why Labour’s four-day week plan could backfire
Employees will have the right to ask their employers to compress their hours into four days a week rather than…
Is Starmer now a friend of the oil and gas industry?
Keir Starmer’s government appears to have softened its stance on oil and gas. Back in June 2023, the Labour leader…
A trade deal with Germany can only mean one thing
Britain will not be rejoining the EU, the single market nor the customs union – that ship has sailed, and…
The Next equal pay victory is a dark day for British business
Who would bother to create jobs in modern Britain? Clothing retailer Next has done plenty of job-creation over the past…
The myth of Britain’s fleeing non-doms
According to popular imagination, the skies over Britain have been full these past few months of fleets of private jets…
The energy price cap hike is just the start of Labour’s problems
As far as the economy goes, Sir Keir Starmer has enjoyed something of a golden honeymoon. True, he has had…
GCSE grade inflation is finally over
Today’s GSCE results show essentially unchanged performance compared with last year, with 21.7 per cent of pupils achieving grade 7…
Labour is losing fiscal credibility
Just how much longer will the government be able to sustain its assertion that the Conservatives left behind a £22…
Keir Starmer is being humiliated by the rail unions
The foolishness of the government’s appeasement of the unions is becoming clearer by the day. The 15 per cent pay…
Labour are about to ‘switch off’ growth
What a joke the government’s promise to concentrate on ‘growth, growth, growth’ is becoming. Since the Prime Minister uttered those…
Why is the housing market so sluggish?
Is this the first sign of a bounce in the housing market? Property website Rightmove is reporting this morning that enquiries to…
Are monthly retail stats that useful?
So, we were all so impressed with the swashbuckling performance of Gareth Southgate’s team that we all rushed out and…
What should Starmer do about monkeypox?
The government has a bit of a conundrum. Given how Keir Starmer and his Labour colleagues damned the previous Conservative…
Labour’s train driver capitulation is the first step to fiscal ruin
It has taken six weeks, but already the government has lost control of public finances. The decision to award train…
Public sector pay rises are hurting the economy
Today’s labour market figures ought to bring good news: they show that growth on earnings has moderated to 5.4 per…
In defence of Labour’s ‘communist land grab’
We will find out in Rachel Reeves’ first budget on 30 October whether Labour really does intend to wage a…
Is the Great Barrier Reef really dying?
The Great Barrier Reef is, of course, dying – a victim of humans’ hubris and callousness towards the natural world.…
Why Britain riots
Riotous summers seem to occur in Britain with about the same frequency as sunny ones: roughly every decade. Sometimes it’s…
Can the grid take Ed Miliband’s net zero targets?
Ed Miliband, along with those who support his ambition to decarbonise the electricity grid by 2030, has long had a…
Thames Water isn’t solely to blame for the South’s dirty rivers
Few will, or should, feel sympathy for Thames Water being fined 9 per cent of its annual turnover for fouling…
The FTSE fall will upset Rachel Reeves’s October Budget
For a while it looked as if Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves were going to be lucky: they had walked…
