Greta Thunberg has become toxic to the climate movement
Who on Earth thought it would be good idea to invite Greta Thunberg to the COP31 climate conference, the first…
Has Andy Burnham forgotten about soaring mortgage rates?
After another punishment beating for buy-to-let investors in the Budget, it would be tempting to think that frustrated would-be homebuyers…
The US midterms prove that Donald Trump was right
In one sense at least, Donald Trump has proved his detractors wrong. Through his humiliation in the American midterm elections,…
Karl Bushby’s walk around the world is a tragedy, not a triumph
There was I feeling a bit concerned about leaving my wife behind for six weeks to walk from John ‘O…
The pro-EU camp aren’t living in the real world
Thanks to Rachel Reeves’s piece in the Sunday Times this morning we can now say with confidence that Britain’s sluggish…
The price we’ll all pay for the minimum wage hike
How Chancellors love jacking up the minimum wage, as John Healey has just done in his Budget, by 3.9 per…
We need a crackdown on the cycling menace
A modest request to HM Government: if we have to have an ‘active travel commissioner’ can we please make it…
Who cares if Barclays lays off 5 per cent of its staff?
Imagine if the City of London were full of largely unmanned office blocks, and that this had occurred not because…
The green light for Jackdaw is a small victory for common sense
It will likely only be brief, but the government is in danger of looking half-sensible. Not only has John Healey…
How close did Britain come to a blackout in June?
Just how close did Britain’s electricity grid come to collapse on 23 June? Allegations began circulating soon after that date…
Will Labour MPs allow Burnham to end the Neets crisis?
I can’t fault the sentiment contained in a piece which has appeared under Andy Burnham’s name this morning about the…
AI is blowing apart the case for net zero
Remember how ‘green jobs’ were going to transform the UK economy, creating new opportunities for well-paid careers which would sweep…
WFH has turned the public sector into an economic deadweight
I always rather admired the airline pilot who managed to keep two marriages going, one on either side of the…
Why Tom Cruise’s Digger flopped at the box office
Has climate hysteria finally run its course? I ask because the latest Hollywood blockbuster on the subject seems to have…
Zack Polanski is on the brink after his Holborn by-election defeat
Zack Polanski’s failure to win the Holborn and St Pancras by-election is not just a disappointment; it undermines the Green…
The Tories are right: the Environment Agency must go
You can almost feel John Selwyn Gummer, Zac Goldsmith and the rest of the Conservatives’ green lobby quaking. Kemi Badenoch…
Trump is exposing Britain’s energy folly
Exploiting more of our North Sea oil and gas reserves will make absolutely no difference to our energy security nor…
Burnham will regret dredging up the Brexit debate
Andy Burnham tells us that he left the House of Commons in 2017 because he was disillusioned with the place.…
Burnham’s National Care Service is a Tory vote winner
Andy Burnham wants to thank the nation’s carers – except, possibly, the one he told us slipped his Granny Kitty’s…
Andy Burnham’s Great British Grid is doomed
There was a very big hole in the Chancellor John Healey’s claim yesterday that he is going to generate a…
Tactical voting is Burnham’s secret weapon
For Andy Burnham the biggest challenge is to avoid going down like Gordon Brown, who passed up the chance of…
Could slavery reparation demands save Reform UK?
Small boat arrivals are down a bit. Meanwhile, Reform UK has had a difficult year over its donations and seen…
Why green zealots want to drop ‘net zero’
First, the good news. The Commons select committee on energy security and net zero has called on the government to…
If Burnham won’t make cuts, the IMF will do it for him
Even the weather has been playing along with the bizarre 1976 tribute act in which we seem to be trapped.…
Oil at $100 a barrel is a disaster for Trump
When Donald Trump’s political obituary comes to be written, none of his colorful phrases over the years will seem quite…
