Why are white men being shamed as transport polluters?
Black women are the worst for carbon-intensive travelling habits, according to the Guardian, citing research by the Institute for Public Policy…
The truth about pensioners and tax
The Tories’ ‘Triple Lock Plus’ is a pretty blatant attempt to secure the votes of a demographic group which is…
Private schools can’t complain about Labour’s VAT raid
Of course Labour’s policy of charging VAT on private school fees is all about throwing a bit of red meat…
What happened to the electric car revolution?
China is often characterised as a copycat when it comes to industry and technology but in one way it has…
Why is UK retail doing badly?
This morning’s retail sales figures are not what Rishi Sunak will have hoped for as he pitches his case for…
Don’t blame climate change for the crummy weather
It was climate change wot gave us such a wet and stormy winter – or so you may have gathered…
A crackdown on foreign students isn’t the only reason universities will struggle
Reducing the number of overseas students able to come to Britain would be a needless attack on one of our…
Labour and Unite go to war over oil
There is nothing new about battles between the unions and a Labour government. But could a Starmer government be upset…
Hunt’s tax attack on Labour is sure to backfire
It should come as no surprise that Jeremy Hunt has signalled in a speech this morning that he will try…
Tony Blair paper warns against net zero dogma
Is Tony Blair, like Margaret Thatcher before him, about to become the voice from beyond the political grave that makes…
What Hunt should really do to stop people claiming benefits
It is hard to deny the assertion made by Jeremy Hunt and the Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride that…
It would be ridiculous to clamp down on foreign students
Oh, the embarrassment. The government commissioned its own Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to investigate whether graduate visas (which grant overseas…
The EU has ruined plastic water bottles
Hurrah, the problem of plastic waste has been sorted – as of this summer all plastic water bottles sold in…
Britain is right to stand up to the WHO’s vaccine power grab
The World Health Organisation (WHO) hardly distinguished itself during the Covid 19 pandemic. It was slow to declare an emergency,…
Iceland is perfect if you hate people
No-one seems to like tourists any more. Last week Venice introduced its $5 entry charge — which merely buys you…
Khan may have won, but he should still reverse on Ulez
So what was that all about? Rumours that Susan Hall was close to toppling Sadiq Khan have proved to be…
The local elections have not left the Tories in crisis – yet
The Conservatives have, as predicted, had a pretty awful night, but is there any comfort they can draw from the…
Wes Streeting should be ashamed of his white supremacist Tory jibe
Over the past few years Wes Streeting has established himself as one of the more open-minded and reasonable members of…
Falling migration might not be something for the Tories to celebrate
The good news for the Conservatives is that immigration is down. It looks as if the net migration figures will…
Brexit has not made food unaffordable
Imagine that for the past 30 years all food entering Britain from EU countries had been subject to stringent sanitary…
Why didn’t the Tories nationalise the railways?
The Conservatives can crow all they like about the benefits of privatisation – and make whatever claims they like about tickets…
Who will pay the price for the boost in defence spending?
Rishi Sunak’s announcement that the government will increase defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP has been warmly welcomed,…
What happened to the Tory promise to balance the budget?
There is one big reason why a summer general election is unlikely, however tempted the Prime Minister might be to…
Desperate manufacturers are struggling to shift electric cars
By 2024, UBS confidently predicted in a October 2020 report, the cost of manufacturing an electric car would have fallen…
Welsh Labour’s speeding U-turn shows devolution is beginning to grate
The tragedy of Wales’ 20 mph speed limit, which is now to be relaxed, was that it took a good…
