Who becomes a Labour politician to slash benefits?
If you are an idler sponging off the state, you have every excuse to feel cheated. Throughout his years in…
Think you’re so clever boycotting Tesla?
How difficult life has become for earnest, liberal-minded motorists who like to show off their environmental credentials through their choice…
Labour will struggle to reform the civil service
The need for the civil service reforms which Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden is proposing is glaring. It can be…
The disturbing rise of Defend Our Juries
On 29 March 2023, a retired social worker from Walthamstow, Trudi Warner, was arrested for standing outside Inner London Crown…
Is Labour brave enough to say the unsayable about the NHS?
Will this finally be the government which gets on top of the voracious financial monster that is the NHS and…
Matt Wrack will be a hardline teaching union boss
It has a whiff of the old trailer for Jaws 2, the one where viewers were disabused of the idea…
The Huw Edwards BBC pay saga shows how ridiculous the licence fee is
Did anyone really expect Huw Edwards to return the £200,000 he ‘earned’ – or, more correctly, was paid – between…
Why is the UK economy stalling?
Giving evidence to the Treasury Select Committee this afternoon, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey doubled down on a point…
Trade unions are calling the shots under Labour
Is Angela Rayner really being sidelined in this government, having been steamrollered by the rush for growth championed by Keir…
Angela Rayner is exercising her ‘right to switch off’ Britain’s growth
It was reported over the weekend that the government has dropped ‘the right to switch off’ from its Employment Rights…
The day I went missing
The Forcan Ridge off Glen Shiel can be a tricky place this time of year. There wasn’t a huge amount…
The Climate Change Committee is living in cloud cuckoo land
Energy bills may be going up and the economy may be flatlining, but not for long. Thankfully, the government’s Climate…
Why BP is ditching renewables
Among the big, bad oil companies in borstal for environmental offenses, BP has long been the relatively benign one, the…
Is Britain’s ‘net zero economy’ really booming?
If you live opposite the vacant site in Northumberland that was supposed to become the Britishvolt ‘gigafactory’ pumping out batteries…
The Apple encryption row has come at the worst time for Keir Starmer
I am not sure about the capacity of AI to take over the world and suppress humanity, but big tech…
The online shopping boom is well and truly over
So much for ‘dry’ and ‘no buy’ January. The UK public seems to have thoroughly rebelled against efforts to persuade…
The shame of Big Energy’s £3.9 billion profit windfall
It is one of the world’s great mysteries: if wind and solar energy are supposed to be so cheap then…
Why did Starmer rush the ennoblement of Poppy Gustafsson?
Hereditary peers are for the chop, but life peers still have their uses. Last October the process of ennoblement allowed…
Does Trump want to strike an Arctic oil deal with Putin?
The decision by Donald Trump to hold peace talks with Russia on ending the Ukraine war – without Ukraine actually…
Are 3.1 million Brits really too sick to work?
Is it any wonder that the economy is struggling in spite of an apparently booming jobs market, with employers finding…
Britain’s banks never cared about net zero
Several weeks ago, just in advance of Donald Trump’s second presidency, there was a mass withdrawal of US financial institutions…
Will Ed Miliband see sense and drill British gas?
The government says it wants to stop the ‘blockers’ which are holding back Britain’s economy. It also says it wants…
Sorry Nigel, but Rayner is right to delay local elections
I am sure that Nigel Farage would love the opportunity to embarrass Labour and the Tories as much as he…
Why should the NHS employ any diversity officers?
Wes Streeting is offended by NHS staff promoting ‘anti-whiteness’ – as should any taxpayer who has not succumbed to the…
Asda and the absurdity of ‘work of equal value’
At last, some news of an industry in Britain that is flourishing. Unfortunately, it is one that is helping to…
