Ed Miliband doesn’t understand how energy pricing works
Are we about to find out the full foolishness of Ed Miliband’s policy of blocking licences for new oil and…
Starmer’s queue-cutting blunder shows he isn’t very good at politics
Who would want to be Prime Minister, when even an innocent holiday can lead to a PR disaster? Keir Starmer…
Why has ‘decolonising’ Sadiq Khan accepted a knighthood?
If you are going to give gongs for public service, I guess a three-times elected London mayor ought to be…
Elon Musk is the real leader of the opposition
No wonder the left hates X so much. Elon Musk is using it to carve himself a role as Britain’s…
Does Starmer really think quangos will boost economic growth?
If you wanted some ideas for how to boost economic growth, would you ask the people who run businesses or…
What was Badenoch hoping to achieve with her attack on Farage?
Kemi Badenoch believes she has caught out Nigel Farage with a bit of digital sleuthing. No sooner had Farage announced…
Labour is out of its depth with electric cars
When Vauxhall announced the closure of its Luton plant a few weeks ago it seemed that the government had finally…
What happened to ‘growth, growth, growth’?
This is hardly how 2024 was supposed to end for Labour. Free from the shackles of ‘14 years of Tory…
Is it time to scrap the planning system?
If Keir Starmer does succeed in his aim of stimulating a house-building boom, it may be that landowners will have…
Britain is living beyond its means
Today’s figures on the public finances and retail sales will bring some relief to Rachel Reeves; both show a small…
Fixing Britain’s sewers will be fantastically expensive
It isn’t going to help with the cost of living, but Ofwat’s decision to allow water companies to raise bills…
The Waspi women don’t deserve compensation
Labour is right not to pay compensation to the Waspi women – those who feel aggrieved that the state pension…
The hypocrisy of Hollywood’s environmental preaching
You can’t expect anything reasonable when Hollywood gets on its high horse, but really, are our pension contributions truly helping…
The unintended consequence of Angela Rayner’s nature tax
Political office does odd things to parties which were in opposition. Angela Rayner and Steve Reed have written in the Sunday…
Who does Starmer think is going to build Britain’s houses?
Why does the government keep setting itself up for failure? It did it with the target for decarbonising electricity by…
GDP decline is not only Labour’s fault
Is the government going to create a recession out of thin air? This morning’s GDP figures from the Office of…
Ofgem’s standing charge crackdown is a win for the wealthy
At last some good news for owners of second homes: Ofgem has ordered electricity providers to offer tariffs which have…
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…
