The Bank of England’s interest hike shows the worst is to come
After a faltering start in its programme of rate rises, the Bank of England is catching up. Today’s half-point rise…
Inflation slows to 10.7% – and may have passed its peak
Has inflation peaked? The Consumer Prices Index fell to 10.7 per cent last month, down from 11.1 per cent in October.…
The fall of FTX is just the beginning of the crypto collapse
It will come as no comfort to those who have already lost fortunes, but it is remarkable how resilient the…
Oxford’s highwayman campaign against motorists
Oxford councillors are feeling rattled by opposition to their proposal to divide the city into six districts and to limit…
John Kerry gets an easy ride from the climate establishment
For climate campaigners, Donald Trump was the anti-Christ, pooh-poohing climate change and withdrawing the US from the Paris climate agreement.…
Striking railway workers can’t avoid reality for ever
Rail strikes on a couple of days when no trains would be running anyway might not seem the biggest inconvenience…
Prince William’s Earthshot prize won’t save the planet
I hate to pour cold water on the Prince of Wales’ big night out in Boston on Friday, where he…
Why is the US economy doing better than ours?
The US entered recession earlier than the UK and Europe, and suffered its inflation surge earlier too, so it was…
It’s time we stopped subsidising the railways
Rail travel has never been cheap, but should we really each be paying £500 a year even if we never…
Britain isn’t ready for onshore wind
Staging rebellions against their own government has become a way of life for many Tory MPs – but why choose…
Why is Britain still sending foreign aid to China?
Just why is Britain still spending over £50 million a year in development aid to China? Despite it being the…
Will the UK’s economy shrink next year?
The OECD has marked Britain down as the only G7 country (and the only major country bar Russia) expected to…
Why does Rishi Sunak sound so desperate?
A year ago Boris Johnson lost his place in his speech to the CBI annual conference. He started blathering on…
Ignore the climate doomsters: we should celebrate our 8 billion population
It almost certainly wasn’t Vinice Mabansag, the baby born in the Philippines last Tuesday and picked out by the UN…
The bogus companies exploiting Britain’s registration rules
The bogus companies exploiting Britain’s registration rules
Hunt’s ‘Tesla tax’ doesn’t go far enough
There were some very chunky tax rises in the Autumn Statement, most of them using the device of ‘fiscal drag’,…
The true cost of renewable energy
The path to net zero is fraught with fallacy
Britain would be wrong to pay climate change reparations
Is it right that Britain should pay £1.5 billion for developing countries to adapt to floods, cyclones and rising sea…
Would a lower foreign aid target be so bad?
Whatever happened to David Cameron’s promise to spend 0.7 per cent of GDP on foreign aid? Amid much criticism, it…
Brexit isn’t to blame for the economic collapse
We can be grateful for small mercies. 4 November 2022 will go down as the day when a presenter on…
Why is Rishi Sunak going to COP?
Whoever Rishi Sunak is taking his advice from, evidently it isn’t me. Last Friday I wrote here supporting his decision…
What BP’s soaring profits tell us about our dependence on oil
So much for those ‘stranded assets’ which former Bank of England governor Mark Carney and many others tried to warn…
Eurozone inflation hits record 10.7%
Britain’s economic problems can, of course, be laid at the door of Brexit. We know this because it was asserted…
Might Sunak regret his Budget delay?
Given the swift defenestration of his predecessor after her mini-Budget panicked the markets, it is not surprising that Rishi Sunak…
Is Britain heading into an inflation spiral?
Inflation, asserted Rishi Sunak in his first PMQs, makes us all poorer. That is not entirely true – people relying…
