Justin Welby’s climate confusion
It is widely expected that Justin Welby, having now screwed the crown on Charles III’s head, will shortly retire as…
Can reforms save the London stock market?
The decline of the UK stock market has finally reached the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). It has proposed to deregulate…
When does a banking wobble become a crisis?
Can a banking crisis really be going this well? After a week of panic withdrawals and a crashing share price,…
Can Britain become the Saudi Arabia of carbon capture?
Boris Johnson wanted to make Britain ‘the Saudi Arabia of wind’. But Grant Shapps is keen to send Britain’s green…
Cambridge’s ‘cycle-friendly’ roundabout is needlessly dangerous
There is nothing more boring than potholes. I remember that from my own days as a parish councillor. It saps…
The Bank of England is right: Brits can’t keep demanding pay rises
Bank of England chief economist Huw Pill isn’t going to win a popularity contest. Speaking on a podcast for Columbia…
Why are we allowing solar panels to swallow up our farmland?
We have spent a year talking about energy security, but with inflation in food prices running at 19 per cent,…
Newsnight stoops to a new low in its climate protest coverage
Has the BBC been invaded by a cabal of Extinction Rebellion protesters who have tied up the Director General in…
Don’t blame the rain for the drop in high street shopping
Did retail sales really fall in March because of the wet weather? This is the excuse being trotted out by…
Michael O’Leary’s Brexit jibe is a step too far
Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary never has exactly been the master of tact, but will his latest outburst make his customers…
What would it take for house prices to crash?
Just what would it take to induce a housing price crash in Britain? Evidently, more than a Bank of England…
Net zero will make flying more expensive
Are we going to have to give up flying to save the planet? Many climate campaigners have been saying so…
Is this the end of long Covid?
How big a deal is long Covid and can it be treated? Opinions range from it being a serious impediment to…
Interest rates can’t go back to being as low as they were
Good news – at least for those who hold faith in economic forecasts. The IMF has just eradicated half the…
Nigel Lawson’s legacy is one of British transformation
The path from the editor’s chair at The Spectator to 11 Downing Street was not untrodden when Mrs Thatcher asked…
By reducing oil production, Opec is only helping Russia
Just when we thought inflationary forces were softening, the price of crude oil has shot up sharply today in response…
What the new Attenborough series doesn’t tell you
The new Attenborough series needs challenging
The CPTPP trade deal shatters the ‘little Englander’ Brexit myth
Britain’s acceptance into the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) will be presented by the government as a triumph,…
Rishi Sunak now sees a future for fossil fuels in Britain
The location of Rishi Sunak and Grant Shapps’s net zero relaunch today shows there has been a change of emphasis…
It will take a lot for the dollar to die
The end of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency has been predicted so many times that it is tempting…
Scotland is better off without the Greens in government
Just who do the Scottish Greens think they are? They provide a mere seven seats to the SNP’s 64 and…
The Fed’s rate rise shows it is confident about the banks
So, things really are different this time. The US Federal Reserve has decided to raise its Federal Funds Rate (its…
Credit Suisse’s takeover delivers a shock to bond investors
If the emergency takeover of Credit Suisse by UBS was supposed to calm markets, it is not looking that way…
Credit Suisse has been bought out – but at what cost?
Another Sunday, another banking takeover swiftly arranged before markets open on Monday morning. This time Credit Suisse has agreed to be…
A morally simplistic kids’ film: Extrapolations reviewed
We are all, of course, pretty well doomed. We know that because Al Gore told us so in his documentary…
