The housing crash we’re heading for might not be the one you think
Are house prices falling? The Halifax house price index, published today, is finally showing a significant year on year fall:…
Starmer’s right to roam pledge puts the Tories in a bind
Keir Starmer has come up with a good policy for once. He is promising to offer a Scottish-style right to roam…
Don’t be fooled by profiteering banks
What a handy distraction it makes for the banks to stand accused of closing down accounts held by Nigel Farage…
Why Boris’s critics might regret celebrating his downfall
Imagine a Tory prime minister who gave the liberal left almost everything that it wanted. Higher migration? Sure, let’s treble…
Don’t get too excited about deglobalisation
One difference between the rivalry with China and the cold war is that the Soviet Union was completely economically segregated…
Is Justin Trudeau right to blame Canadian wildfires on climate change?
Planes grounded in New York, people told to stay indoors – and an actress forced to leave the stage on…
Is AI all it’s cracked up to be?
So is Artificial intelligence (AI) to be a new engine of growth for the UK economy? That is Rishi Sunak’s hope. Ideally,…
The problem with calculating climate-related excess deaths
Another week, another extravagant claim for climatic doom goes unchallenged. Speaking on the Today programme on Wednesday morning, Dale Vince…
Abolishing inheritance tax would be a mistake for the Tories
Liz Truss’ fallen star has been rising again of late (at least a few degrees above the horizon) as gilt…
Could falling house prices be here to stay?
Not for the first time, a gulf has opened up between house price indices. This morning, Nationwide reports that average…
Brexit could fix inflation
Has food price inflation finally peaked? Figures released by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) this morning reveal that food prices…
Fixing food prices is a recipe for disaster
It wasn’t long ago that supermarkets stood accused of selling food too cheaply. Their price wars and two-for-the-price-of-one deals were…
Online shopping has not killed off the high street, yet
It wasn’t supposed to turn out this way, not at the beginning of the year when the wise and good…
Electricity is to blame for stubbornly high energy prices
So much for price-fixing. The energy price cap is finally set to fall, with the result that the average household…
What will it take to crash the housing market?
Is there anything that might cause the much-predicted crash in UK house prices? Not – evidently – a pandemic (which perversely…
Is Germany turning against the EU’s Green Deal?
Last week it was President Macron who was rowing back on green measures. In a speech he asserted that Europe…
Britain’s rivers are filthy
The name Chris Whitty will forever be associated in people’s minds with Covid-19. But in a recent cri de coeur…
Europe is turning against net zero
Europe’s net-zero backlash
BT replacing jobs with AI is nothing to be scared of
BT has announced that it will cut up to 55,000 jobs by the end of the decade. The company currently…
Starmer’s savvy Brexit position
Keir Starmer has made the anodyne demand that Britain seek a ‘closer trading agreement’ with the EU. But why doesn’t…
Britain is becoming Brussels on Thames
Whatever happened to Singapore on Thames? Weren’t we, after leaving the EU, supposed to be forging a future as a…
Justin Welby’s climate confusion
It is widely expected that Justin Welby, having now screwed the crown on Charles III’s head, will shortly retire as…
Can reforms save the London stock market?
The decline of the UK stock market has finally reached the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). It has proposed to deregulate…
When does a banking wobble become a crisis?
Can a banking crisis really be going this well? After a week of panic withdrawals and a crashing share price,…
Can Britain become the Saudi Arabia of carbon capture?
Boris Johnson wanted to make Britain ‘the Saudi Arabia of wind’. But Grant Shapps is keen to send Britain’s green…
