Labour’s planning reforms look like a way of punishing Tory voters
Is the government’s housing policy aimed principally at increasing the stock of homes and making them more affordable or at…
No, Bovaer won’t give you cancer
Were I given to conspiracy theories I would conclude that there must be a shady animal rights group conducting the…
Syria just proves the West is damned whatever it does
It is salutary to remember that were it not for Ed Miliband, Bashar al-Assad might have been deposed 11 years…
Sally Rooney is talking nonsense about climate change
Two years ago, Time magazine named novelist Sally Rooney as one of its 100 most influential people in the world. In that…
Weight loss drugs won’t solve the obesity crisis
The NHS is about to start doling out ‘the King Kong of weight loss drugs’ to obese patients – the…
The triumph of England’s maths lessons
Hold your hats, but Britain is doing rather well in something – or at least England is. Our children are…
The OECD has changed its tune on Britain
Is the OECD doing Labour’s PR for it? I ask only because of its bullish prediction for UK economic growth…
Tony Blair is wrong to love nuclear energy
Towards the end of his time in office, Tony Blair came over all nuclear. A new generation of atomic energy…
What if assisted dying turned out to save lives?
Who would envy being an MP today when called upon to vote on a matter of conscience: the assisted dying…
EV craze is killing our car industry
It is hard to see where all of Ed Miliband’s ‘green jobs’ are coming from, but we are certainly losing…
Starmer can’t ignore the sickness benefits crisis
Where is the stick? For weeks the government has been trailing its white paper on benefits reform by floating the…
Labour might regret its desire for vote reform
Turkeys don’t usually vote for Christmas, so just why have 43 new Labour MPs signed up to the All Party…
Is Labour really going to crack down on benefit cheats?
I can’t fault Keir Starmer for his piece in the Mail on Sunday today promising that Labour will crack down on…
Is Big Oil back?
Cop29 has drawn to a close with arguments over a $250 billion (£200 billion) a year ‘loss and damage’ fund,…
Labour’s promise to cut energy bills looks more foolish than ever
After reneging on its manifesto pledge to not raise National Insurance, Labour is starting to struggle with another promise: to…
Britain is addicted to spending beyond its means
Imagine what the government could do with an extra £9.1 billion a month. It could build HS2 in its entirety…
The truth about ‘workshy’ Britain
Is ‘workshy Britain’ a mirage caused by dodgy statistics? That is what the left-leaning think tank the Resolution Foundation is…
Britain is eating itself to death
It is a fate which has been creeping up on Britain for years, but that doesn’t make it any the…
Is deadly weather being ‘supercharged’?
So that’s it then: the Guardian has declared that we are all being scorched, drowned and blown over by climate…
Without America, Britain’s economy will stall
The comments by Stephen Moore, Donald Trump’s economic adviser, should not really be controversial. ‘I’ve always said that Britain has…
Rachel Reeves is turning into Gordon Brown
Rachel Reeves is beginning to look awfully like Gordon Brown. Study the actions of this government so far and you…
My radical proposal for the civil service
I’ve got a better idea for the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union, which is demanding civil servants be allowed…
The world isn’t listening to Keir Starmer’s climate preaching
Keir Starmer said he was travelling to Cop 29 in Baku intending to “lead the world on climate change”. But…
Keir Starmer isn’t being honest about his COP carbon pledge
‘It’s not about telling people how to live their lives. I’m not interested in that’ said Keir Starmer of his…
Are the super rich really abandoning Britain?
With an urgency not always noted in plumbers, Charlie Mullins announced earlier this year that he was leaving the country,…
