Ross Clark

AI won’t save Britain with one quick trick

14 January 2025 12:08 am

Obviously, artificial Intelligence (AI) is a boom industry that will transform many other industries and make fortunes for some people.…

Liz Truss’s legal threat against Keir Starmer is a mistake

9 January 2025 10:54 pm

In politics as in everyday life it is possible to be right at the same time as being terribly, terribly…

The truth about the LA wildfires 

9 January 2025 5:38 pm

It is like a Hollywood disaster movie with a difference: it really is happening close to Hollywood, and the stars…

Can the grid cope with many more EV chargers?

7 January 2025 11:11 pm

Is this the development that is finally going to make us shake off our aversion to electric vehicles (EVs)? Local…

Foreign national crime stats show we have an immigration problem

6 January 2025 11:24 pm

Britain, as we know, is a country where sex offences are on the rise because toxic males are having their…

Tommy Robinson isn’t the story here

6 January 2025 3:01 am

Elon Musk’s Twitter attack on Jess Phillips is certainly offensive. It may even deserve to be called a ‘disgraceful smear’,…

The banking system’s net zero reckoning

5 January 2025 11:00 am

It all seemed so unstoppable in April 2021 when a group of the world’s banks, under the guidance of former…

The fatal flaw in Labour’s vote reform plans

4 January 2025 2:10 am

Keir Starmer’s government won’t be the first to engage in gerrymandering when it seeks to lower the voting age from…

Ed Miliband doesn’t understand how energy pricing works

3 January 2025 12:06 am

Are we about to find out the full foolishness of Ed Miliband’s policy of blocking licences for new oil and…

Starmer’s queue-cutting blunder shows he isn’t very good at politics

2 January 2025 10:46 pm

Who would want to be Prime Minister, when even an innocent holiday can lead to a PR disaster? Keir Starmer…

Why has ‘decolonising’ Sadiq Khan accepted a knighthood?

31 December 2024 8:32 pm

If you are going to give gongs for public service, I guess a three-times elected London mayor ought to be…

Elon Musk is the real leader of the opposition

31 December 2024 5:03 am

No wonder the left hates X so much. Elon Musk is using it to carve himself a role as Britain’s…

Does Starmer really think quangos will boost economic growth?

29 December 2024 6:10 pm

If you wanted some ideas for how to boost economic growth, would you ask the people who run businesses or…

What was Badenoch hoping to achieve with her attack on Farage?

27 December 2024 6:04 pm

Kemi Badenoch believes she has caught out Nigel Farage with a bit of digital sleuthing. No sooner had Farage announced…

Labour is out of its depth with electric cars

25 December 2024 3:26 am

When Vauxhall announced the closure of its Luton plant a few weeks ago it seemed that the government had finally…

What happened to ‘growth, growth, growth’?

24 December 2024 12:11 am

This is hardly how 2024 was supposed to end for Labour. Free from the shackles of ‘14 years of Tory…

Is it time to scrap the planning system?

20 December 2024 11:37 pm

If Keir Starmer does succeed in his aim of stimulating a house-building boom, it may be that landowners will have…

Britain is living beyond its means

20 December 2024 9:08 pm

Today’s figures on the public finances and retail sales will bring some relief to Rachel Reeves; both show a small…

Fixing Britain’s sewers will be fantastically expensive

19 December 2024 10:17 pm

It isn’t going to help with the cost of living, but Ofwat’s decision to allow water companies to raise bills…

The Waspi women don’t deserve compensation

18 December 2024 8:04 pm

Labour is right not to pay compensation to the Waspi women – those who feel aggrieved that the state pension…

The hypocrisy of Hollywood’s environmental preaching

17 December 2024 8:52 pm

You can’t expect anything reasonable when Hollywood gets on its high horse, but really, are our pension contributions truly helping…

The unintended consequence of Angela Rayner’s nature tax

15 December 2024 10:56 pm

Political office does odd things to parties which were in opposition. Angela Rayner and Steve Reed have written in the Sunday…

Who does Starmer think is going to build Britain’s houses?

14 December 2024 10:52 pm

Why does the government keep setting itself up for failure? It did it with the target for decarbonising electricity by…

GDP decline is not only Labour’s fault

13 December 2024 9:57 pm

Is the government going to create a recession out of thin air? This morning’s GDP figures from the Office of…

Ofgem’s standing charge crackdown is a win for the wealthy

12 December 2024 10:43 pm

At last some good news for owners of second homes: Ofgem has ordered electricity providers to offer tariffs which have…