Trump’s victory makes Miliband’s climate plans look even sillier
If you think Donald Trump’s victory is hard enough on Kamala Harris’s campaign staff, spare a thought for the world’s…
Trump’s tariff plans don’t have to spell bad news for Britain
On the face of it, Donald Trump’s threat to impose general import tariffs of 10 to 20 per cent on…
The reason Kamala Harris is losing
Whatever you think of Donald Trump, watching the mood change in the BBC’s election studio has been delicious. It was…
More evidence that the Budget raises taxes for workers
Six days on from the Budget, and things don’t look any better for Rachel Reeves’s claim that her Budget won’t…
James Dyson isn’t helping farmers
If I were president of the National Farmers’ Union I know what my first task would be today: ring up…
Can the OBR be trusted?
It was the absence of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s judgment that was blamed for the bond market crisis after…
Will the ‘value for money’ tsar really overrule Rachel Reeves?
Is there any word more laughably misapplied than ‘tsar’? We have already had an ‘antisemitism tsar’ and now we are…
Why should we trust the IMF?
It wasn’t an aggrieved business leader, facing a sharply increased wage bill thanks to the Budget, that led the 8…
The markets don’t like this Budget much
It has been a good day for investors in the Alternative Investment Market (Aim), with the index of the top…
Why this Budget could be worse than you fear
It is tempting to think of this Budget as a triumph in expectation management. Rachel Reeves’s minions have briefed us…
Does Rachel Reeves have to hike taxes?
Could Rachel Reeves’s ‘black hole’ be filled not through tax rises or even spending cuts but rather through getting an…
The real problem with Rachel Reeves’s Budget fiddle
Remember Gordon Brown’s ‘golden rule’ – that over the course of the economic cycle the only net borrowing he would…
Why the call for slavery reparations is a scam
It would be a shame if Britain were forced to leave the Commonwealth, given the great work it has done…
Will the Chancellor widen the public-private pension gap?
Could Rachel Reeves really be so brazen as to lumber private sector employers with having to pay national insurance contributions…
The UK’s debts are horrifyingly large
There is a big danger in today’s government borrowing figures for September being a little less bad than was expected…
Why Wes Streeting’s ‘prevention’ agenda is sinister
Who could possibly object to Wes Streeting’s plan to turn the NHS ‘from hospital to neighbourhood’ and from ‘sickness to…
Brits seem curiously untroubled by Labour’s Budget – at least for now
If the public is worried about what lies in store in Rachel Reeves’ first Budget, there are few signs of…
Should the UK copy Europe on standardised chargers?
You probably know the frustration: you are sitting there trying to stuff a charging cable into your phone before realising…
Tim Davie and the death of BBC ‘talent’
Has anyone ever come up with a better put-down for Nick Robinson? It is even better that it came from…
Is Labour’s Britain really an investor’s paradise?
So, is it really time in invest in Britain, as the heads of fourteen banks and other financial institutions have…
Labour will regret its war with P and O
Labour’s Employment Rights Bill promises workers flexible working, is supposed to protect them from unfair dismissal from day one of…
Ron DeSantis’s climate bill has nothing to do with Hurricane Milton
Hurricane Milton has left more than two million homes and businesses in Florida without power and threatens to be a…
How bad will Hurricane Milton be?
‘Astronomical’; the ‘strongest storm in a century’; ‘nearing the mathematical limit for a storm’ – the increasingly fraught descriptions of…
Does Britain really want less immigration?
The economy shrinks quarter by quarter; whole streets of houses in northern towns are abandoned, schools start closing for want…
Ordering water firms to cut bills is a mistake
Water companies have sweated the assets they were handed upon privatisation in the late 1980s. They have failed to invest properly,…
