What will Ed Miliband do when the lights go out?
How many times has Ed Miliband told us that his renewable energy policies were helping to free us from ‘fossil…
Stop sneering at the Brits stuck in Dubai
Who cares about vacuous influencers whose ghastly apartments in Dubai are being struck by Iranian missiles, wiping the smile off…
Labour’s Gorton defeat shows that Keir Starmer is finished
In the end it wasn’t even close. The Greens won the Manchester Gorton and Denton by-election with some to spare,…
Just how bad are Nato’s armies?
Given the relative sizes of their economies, one might conclude that Russia would quake before the military might of Europe’s…
What does the ONS mean by living in ‘good health’?
Living longer but spending more of our lives in ill health. That is the rather shocking picture presented by the…
A homegrown Visa card won’t save Britain in a crisis
It is finally dawning on the government and the banking industry that it is not such a good idea to…
Morocco should be allowed to cull its stray dogs
Imagine if spectators at the London Olympics had to gingerly make their way past loose pit bull terriers and XL…
Ed Miliband’s delusional energy deal with California
What a pair Ed Miliband and California governor Gavin Newsom make. Both seem to suffer from the delusion that they…
Don’t blame AI for this jobs bloodbath
No wonder government ministers in recent weeks have started nodding along with fears that AI will take our jobs, with…
Trump’s America isn’t the outlier on greenhouse gases
Irresponsible Trump, responsible China: that is the message the BBC’s climate editor seemed to be sending us by juxtaposing the…
Jim Ratcliffe has a point about Britain
Jim Ratcliffe is not a polished media performer, and neither does he have an accurate set of UK demographic statistics…
Ed Miliband’s green promises are coming back to haunt him
It looks as if £300 will end up being to Ed Miliband what 45 minutes was to Tony Blair: the…
Will the Mandelson affair make loyalty a crime?
Nothing excuses the manner of Peter Mandelson’s communications with Jeffrey Epstein both before and after the latter’s conviction for sex…
The glaring flaw in Keir Starmer’s AI plan
Like Harold Wilson and his ill-defined ‘white heat of technology’, Keir Starmer has latched on to artificial intelligence as the…
Alton Towers is right to ban ADHD queue-jumpers
That will teach people who seek a diagnosis of ADHD in the hope that it will bring them various advantages…
Ed Miliband is killing Aberdeen
‘It’s Scotland’s oil,’ cried the slogan of the SNP in the 1970s when the party first began a serious drive…
Ed Miliband’s warm homes scheme is good news for cowboy builders
The cowboys must be licking their lips. Ed Miliband has come up with yet another green homes scheme to chuck…
Trump is right: Starmer’s Chagos deal is an act of ‘great stupidity’
The excruciating thing about Donald Trump is that the madder and more unreasonable he seems to become, the more he…
Reform risk becoming the face of Tory failure
How grim things are suddenly looking for Nigel Farage and Reform UK. It isn’t that their poll ratings are crashing…
Ed Miliband’s wind power delusion is costing us a fortune
Remember the summer of 2022 when politicians from Ed Miliband to Boris Johnson went around telling us that wind energy…
Is Cambridge’s state school diversity obsession over?
Shock horror. A Cambridge college has realised that to recruit the brightest students sometimes you have to encourage students from…
Trump’s proto-British Empire built on oil
One remarkable thing about Donald Trump’s adventure in Venezuela is just how old-fashioned it is. It is a world away…
There’s a better way for Farage to win the motorist vote
It is easy to see the political attraction for Nigel Farage of promising to reverse Rachel Reeves’s decision to end…
The truth about Keir Starmer’s EU ‘reset’
As Keir Starmer found out with digital ID, what the public initially says it wants isn’t always what it turns…
The RMT has doomed the Oxford-Cambridge railway
Thank God for HS2. The scandal of the ever-more expensive and ever-delayed rail line from London to Birmingham (and now…
