Ross Clark

How WFH engineers caused an air traffic control meltdown

14 March 2024 11:33 pm

How lovely that engineers working for National Air Traffic Services (Nats) can work from home rather than having to slog…

Who is going to pay for Rishi’s gas power stations?

12 March 2024 10:15 pm

The problem with intermittency of wind and solar energy is so obvious that you wonder why is has taken the…

‘Levelling up’ is finished

5 March 2024 6:28 pm

Just what has the government done to try to retain the Red Wall vote? It seemed when they won a majority…

Why are UK shares doing so badly?

4 March 2024 11:23 pm

What is wrong with UK shares? While the US, European and Japanese stock markets reach new highs, UK markets are…

Is Amnesty right that Britain has a black mould epidemic?

2 March 2024 2:57 am

Are large numbers of children in Britain being killed by black mould in their homes? That seems to be the…

The farce of Drax’s wood pellets

29 February 2024 8:02 pm

When is the government going to stop pretending that chopping down trees in North American forests and shipping them across…

How Hunt’s Budget could put Starmer in a bind

27 February 2024 11:08 pm

Time was when a chancellor had to resign for leaking the Budget – Hugh Dalton famously lost his job after…

John Kerry has unwittingly exposed the climate change wheeze

27 February 2024 2:25 am

Here’s a good wheeze: prod every last inch of your own country, open the taps and become the world’s largest…

Can the EU survive another five years of Ursula von der Leyen?

26 February 2024 7:00 pm

Ursula von der Leyen came to the post of President of the European Commission five years ago with a less…

Unreliable renewables will make energy more costly

23 February 2024 11:39 pm

It is of course good news that the Ofgem price cap for a dual fuel household bill will fall from…

The failed Trident missile launch is a big embarrassment for Britain

21 February 2024 10:37 pm

With Keir Starmer having rid the Labour party of its Corbynite doctrines, Britain’s independent nuclear deterrent would not be expected…

Andrew Bailey: Britain’s recession may already be over

20 February 2024 11:19 pm

We’re not cutting interest rates because we think the recession may already be over and we’re not even sure we…

Michael Gove’s holiday let crackdown could trash the tourist industry

20 February 2024 12:52 am

Just why did Michael Gove campaign for Brexit? I thought he was selling us a future with a more entrepreneurial…

Did lockdowns cause more harm than good?

18 February 2024 5:30 pm

The question of whether lockdowns caused more problems than they solved will be picked over for years to come, even…

Shoppers are falling out of love with online shopping

16 February 2024 8:24 pm

Maybe the Office for National Statistics should stop seasonally adjusting its data. That is the lesson from today’s retail sales figures,…

Britain’s unemployment figures can’t be trusted

15 February 2024 3:46 am

Britain’s unemployment statistics are unreliable, and the Office of National Statistics is experimenting with a new method of counting the…

Trump’s madness will strengthen Nato

12 February 2024 11:53 pm

‘Appalling and unhinged’ was Joe Biden’s (or at least the White House’s) verdict on Donald Trump’s remarks that he might…

The renewables bubble has burst

11 February 2024 7:19 pm

It wasn’t so long ago that Orsted was being held up as an example of how oil and gas companies…

Fact check: Tim Spector’s frightening climate claims

8 February 2024 1:47 am

The BBC just can’t seem to stop itself trying to frighten people over climate change. On Tuesday morning it was…

Will Londoners fall for Sadiq Khan’s election bribes?

4 February 2024 5:00 pm

Taxpayers are being treated to a clutch of pre-election bribes from a politician who only a few months ago was…

The housing crash that never was

3 February 2024 8:05 pm

So is that the end of the property ‘crash’? Nationwide reported this week that its house price index was up…

Rugby isn’t child abuse. But it is dangerous

3 February 2024 12:40 am

Why is no one only slightly wrong any more? We don’t say or do things that are foolish or ill-thought out…

No, Brexit checks won’t push up food prices

31 January 2024 10:43 pm

It is one of those occasions when you don’t need to wait for tomorrow’s newspapers to know what will be…

Rishi Sunak lacks the courage to take on the rail unions

30 January 2024 10:26 pm

So, what was the point of the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act? What is happening today and for the rest of…