What if assisted dying turned out to save lives?
Who would envy being an MP today when called upon to vote on a matter of conscience: the assisted dying…
EV craze is killing our car industry
It is hard to see where all of Ed Miliband’s ‘green jobs’ are coming from, but we are certainly losing…
Labour might regret its desire for vote reform
Turkeys don’t usually vote for Christmas, so just why have 43 new Labour MPs signed up to the All Party…
Is Labour really going to crack down on benefit cheats?
I can’t fault Keir Starmer for his piece in the Mail on Sunday today promising that Labour will crack down on…
Is Big Oil back?
Cop29 has drawn to a close with arguments over a $250 billion (£200 billion) a year ‘loss and damage’ fund,…
Labour’s promise to cut energy bills looks more foolish than ever
After reneging on its manifesto pledge to not raise National Insurance, Labour is starting to struggle with another promise: to…
Britain is addicted to spending beyond its means
Imagine what the government could do with an extra £9.1 billion a month. It could build HS2 in its entirety…
The truth about ‘workshy’ Britain
Is ‘workshy Britain’ a mirage caused by dodgy statistics? That is what the left-leaning think tank the Resolution Foundation is…
Britain is eating itself to death
It is a fate which has been creeping up on Britain for years, but that doesn’t make it any the…
Is deadly weather being ‘supercharged’?
So that’s it then: the Guardian has declared that we are all being scorched, drowned and blown over by climate…
Without America, Britain’s economy will stall
The comments by Stephen Moore, Donald Trump’s economic adviser, should not really be controversial. ‘I’ve always said that Britain has…
Rachel Reeves is turning into Gordon Brown
Rachel Reeves is beginning to look awfully like Gordon Brown. Study the actions of this government so far and you…
My radical proposal for the civil service
I’ve got a better idea for the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union, which is demanding civil servants be allowed…
The world isn’t listening to Keir Starmer’s climate preaching
Keir Starmer said he was travelling to Cop 29 in Baku intending to “lead the world on climate change”. But…
Keir Starmer isn’t being honest about his COP carbon pledge
‘It’s not about telling people how to live their lives. I’m not interested in that’ said Keir Starmer of his…
Are the super rich really abandoning Britain?
With an urgency not always noted in plumbers, Charlie Mullins announced earlier this year that he was leaving the country,…
Trump’s victory makes Miliband’s climate plans look even sillier
If you think Donald Trump’s victory is hard enough on Kamala Harris’s campaign staff, spare a thought for the world’s…
Trump’s tariff plans don’t have to spell bad news for Britain
On the face of it, Donald Trump’s threat to impose general import tariffs of 10 to 20 per cent on…
The reason Kamala Harris is losing
Whatever you think of Donald Trump, watching the mood change in the BBC’s election studio has been delicious. It was…
More evidence that the Budget raises taxes for workers
Six days on from the Budget, and things don’t look any better for Rachel Reeves’s claim that her Budget won’t…
James Dyson isn’t helping farmers
If I were president of the National Farmers’ Union I know what my first task would be today: ring up…
Can the OBR be trusted?
It was the absence of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s judgment that was blamed for the bond market crisis after…
Will the ‘value for money’ tsar really overrule Rachel Reeves?
Is there any word more laughably misapplied than ‘tsar’? We have already had an ‘antisemitism tsar’ and now we are…
Why should we trust the IMF?
It wasn’t an aggrieved business leader, facing a sharply increased wage bill thanks to the Budget, that led the 8…
The markets don’t like this Budget much
It has been a good day for investors in the Alternative Investment Market (Aim), with the index of the top…
