GCSE grade inflation is finally over
Today’s GSCE results show essentially unchanged performance compared with last year, with 21.7 per cent of pupils achieving grade 7…
Labour is losing fiscal credibility
Just how much longer will the government be able to sustain its assertion that the Conservatives left behind a £22…
Keir Starmer is being humiliated by the rail unions
The foolishness of the government’s appeasement of the unions is becoming clearer by the day. The 15 per cent pay…
Labour are about to ‘switch off’ growth
What a joke the government’s promise to concentrate on ‘growth, growth, growth’ is becoming. Since the Prime Minister uttered those…
Why is the housing market so sluggish?
Is this the first sign of a bounce in the housing market? Property website Rightmove is reporting this morning that enquiries to…
Are monthly retail stats that useful?
So, we were all so impressed with the swashbuckling performance of Gareth Southgate’s team that we all rushed out and…
What should Starmer do about monkeypox?
The government has a bit of a conundrum. Given how Keir Starmer and his Labour colleagues damned the previous Conservative…
Labour’s train driver capitulation is the first step to fiscal ruin
It has taken six weeks, but already the government has lost control of public finances. The decision to award train…
Public sector pay rises are hurting the economy
Today’s labour market figures ought to bring good news: they show that growth on earnings has moderated to 5.4 per…
In defence of Labour’s ‘communist land grab’
We will find out in Rachel Reeves’ first budget on 30 October whether Labour really does intend to wage a…
Is the Great Barrier Reef really dying?
The Great Barrier Reef is, of course, dying – a victim of humans’ hubris and callousness towards the natural world.…
Why Britain riots
Riotous summers seem to occur in Britain with about the same frequency as sunny ones: roughly every decade. Sometimes it’s…
Can the grid take Ed Miliband’s net zero targets?
Ed Miliband, along with those who support his ambition to decarbonise the electricity grid by 2030, has long had a…
Thames Water isn’t solely to blame for the South’s dirty rivers
Few will, or should, feel sympathy for Thames Water being fined 9 per cent of its annual turnover for fouling…
The FTSE fall will upset Rachel Reeves’s October Budget
For a while it looked as if Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves were going to be lucky: they had walked…
Why are stocks suffering?
Today’s stock market plunge is interesting for two main reasons. First, for those of us who have never traded on…
Starmer’s response to the riots raises several questions
It goes without saying that the riots in Southport, Hartlepool and London are a mindless reaction to the killing of…
How independent is the Bank of England?
As Kate Andrews argues here, the Bank of England were never going to cut interest rates during an election campaign…
Why is Hollywood funding Just Stop Oil?
It will surprise no-one to learn that there is a trail of money which leads from climate protesters and their…
The inconvenient truth about ‘rewilding’
Angela Rayner has announced that the government will aim to build 370,000 new homes, up from the 300,000 a year…
Is Rachel Reeves really worried about a fiscal black hole?
There is one over-arching question hanging over Rachel Reeves’s speech today, in which she claimed that a £21.9 billion hole…
How Labour plans to justify its tax hike
Oh, the suspense. It seems that we will have to wait until next week to discover the details of the…
Are we really experiencing more ‘extreme’ weather?
The UK climate is getting ever more extreme. We know this because the BBC keeps telling us so, most recently…
Miliband will need natural gas to hit net zero
Three weeks into the new Labour government and it is already becoming clear where some of its weaknesses lie –…
Can Labour afford inflation-busting pay rises for teachers and NHS staff?
Well, that didn’t last long. Having preached to us about fiscal responsibility and ‘securonomics’, Chancellor Rachel Reeves appears to be…
