Starmer is falling into the EU’s trap
No doubt Keir Starmer wants us to think he is being ‘grown up’ in accepting an invitation to dinner at…
Liz Kendall’s benefits crusade could make or break Labour’s fortunes
Could Liz Kendall turn out to be the most significant figure of Keir Starmer’s government, and a Chancellor in the…
Sacrificing farmland for net zero is a big mistake
Yesterday it was a court ruling to invalidate licences for oil and gas extraction in the Rosebank and Jackdaw fields.…
Britain is not ready to give up North Sea oil and gas
Ed Miliband seems to have gone missing since Rachel Reeves announced her ambition for a third runway at Heathrow yesterday.…
Will public sector workers return to their desks for Donald Trump?
So much for the theory that Covid would change working practices for good: that we would divide our time between…
Is Rachel Reeves right that there is no trade-off between growth and net zero?
Why is it that some lies get endlessly repeated without ever being challenged, even though they are quite obviously wrong?…
Labour will regret extending the BBC licence fee
The BBC licence fee is dying as millions of Britons realise that they do not need a television; they can…
Councils shouldn’t be allowed to raise tax by 25%
It is easy enough to trace the point at which local authorities embarked on the sad, downwards journey which has…
Heathrow’s third runway won’t improve London’s air quality
Is Rachel Reeves really correct that her new-found enthusiasm for a third runway at Heathrow would be consistent with the…
Why won’t Britain take the Covid lab leak theory seriously?
The CIA report concluding that Covid most likely originated from a laboratory leak of a man-made, or man-enhanced, virus raises…
Skiing is ghastly
Is anyone else getting a bit fed up of reading weepy newspaper stories about how the skiing industry is being…
Rachel Reeves’ tinkering won’t rescue Britain’s economy
The news just seems to get worse for Rachel Reeves. After the slight relief of last week’s inflation and GDP…
Trump exposes the madness of Ed Miliband’s energy plans
Remember how the first incarnation of a Trump presidency was supposed to be pretty well curtains for Planet Earth? Well,…
Trump won’t respect David Lammy’s fawning
Dear, oh dear. Will David Lammy never get it right? This morning he told the Today programme that Donald Trump…
Is Europe really faring better than Britain?
Five years ago this week, Boris Johnson was celebrating the achievement of leaving the European Union and wondering how he…
The retail recession
There was some relief for Rachel Reeves earlier this week when inflation fell slightly to 2.5 per cent and the…
Europe’s car industry is under attack on all fronts
It is half a century since Britain’s native car industry embarked on its long, painful decline, precipitated by Austin Allegros…
AI won’t save Britain with one quick trick
Obviously, artificial Intelligence (AI) is a boom industry that will transform many other industries and make fortunes for some people.…
Liz Truss’s legal threat against Keir Starmer is a mistake
In politics as in everyday life it is possible to be right at the same time as being terribly, terribly…
The truth about the LA wildfires
It is like a Hollywood disaster movie with a difference: it really is happening close to Hollywood, and the stars…
Can the grid cope with many more EV chargers?
Is this the development that is finally going to make us shake off our aversion to electric vehicles (EVs)? Local…
Foreign national crime stats show we have an immigration problem
Britain, as we know, is a country where sex offences are on the rise because toxic males are having their…
Tommy Robinson isn’t the story here
Elon Musk’s Twitter attack on Jess Phillips is certainly offensive. It may even deserve to be called a ‘disgraceful smear’,…
The banking system’s net zero reckoning
It all seemed so unstoppable in April 2021 when a group of the world’s banks, under the guidance of former…
The fatal flaw in Labour’s vote reform plans
Keir Starmer’s government won’t be the first to engage in gerrymandering when it seeks to lower the voting age from…
