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…
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…
