Could Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse lead to a financial crash?
Tech start-ups tend to involve taking big risks on ideas which are untested both in terms of technology and the…
Aukus is looking like a Nato for the Pacific
How big a deal is it that Australia has chosen a British design for its nuclear submarines rather than the…
Ministers can’t blame Putin for the disaster that is HS2
And I thought the SNP were destined to win the award for this year’s most pathetic excuse – after Scottish…
Why is Whitehall intent on burying the Covid lab leak theory?
Why does our government have so much trouble criticising China? It doesn’t seem to have had a problem calling out Vladimir…
Will Tony Blair ever give up on ID cards?
Is Tony Blair ever going to give up hope of foisting ID cards on us? As prime minister, he was…
The £5.4 billion government surplus masks a larger economic issue
There have been celebrations this morning about a government surplus of £5.4 billion last month, and people are even talking…
Why no one wants a Ford Fiesta anymore
The world of business has long been creative with feeble excuses. Even so, the explanation given by Tim Slatter, chairman…
Is Brexit really costing households £1,000 each?
They never give up, those Remainers. Like the Japanese soldier found on a Pacific island still fighting the second world…
Why central bank digital currencies are terrible
The government and Bank of England seem to have finally woken up to one of the many glaring problems with…
The dangerous myth of degrowth
The dangerous myth of degrowth
Why should under-productive civil servants get a pay rise?
We all know about the teachers and train drivers, but apparently there are 100,000 civil servants in 124 government departments…
Three years on, is Brexit worth celebrating?
Today, if you feel so inclined to celebrate it, is Brexit Day: the date on which, three years ago, Britain…
What does the IMF want from the UK economy?
Just what is a UK government supposed to do to keep the IMF happy? This morning it has issued a…
Could Britain cope without Taiwanese microchips?
So now we know what Britain’s great green economy looks like. First, the good news: construction of electric cars in…
It’s no surprise Britain’s manufacturers are struggling
Every month, we are bombarded with the Consumer Prices Index (CPI), the main inflation measure. It is currently running at…
The retirement age should be 70
Remember the Waspi women, who used to leap up and down outside Tory conferences for the right to continue to…
The unhinged environmentalism of Al Gore
Lucky old Americans. They only had to put up with one fruitcake as president, in Donald Trump. It could have…
The strikes have lost their power
How strikes lost their bite
Food price inflation hits 16.8 per cent
Oil prices are down, wholesale gas prices are down, so why isn’t inflation falling a lot faster than it is?…
Do we truly know the cost of net zero?
Just why is Chris Skidmore’s review into the government’s target to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 called an…
Could Britain avoid recession altogether?
The idea that we face a certain recession has been drummed into our heads for months. The Bank of England…
How likely is a global recession this year?
The best thing that can be said about global economic growth prospects for 2023 is that no-one is expecting very…
Putin has failed to bring Europe to its knees
Unforeseen events which provoke global crises – such as Covid — have come to be known as ‘black swans’. By…
Is global warming behind America’s snowstorms?
Is there any weather condition which cannot be blamed on anthropogenic global warming (AGW)? No, it seems, judging by the reaction…
How Britain’s economy might bounce back in 2023
Whatever happened to the economic boom that was supposed to follow the Covid pandemic? The 2020s, some argued, would be…
