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…
Why are Europe's gas prices falling?
Is Europe’s chilly winter destined to become another Millennium bug – a much-feared disaster that never transpires? Only a few…
Rishi Sunak faces an impossible job
Well, good luck, Rishi. You’ll need it – and not just because, as backbench Tory MP Sir Christopher Chope put…
Is Britain heading for a painful recession?
Given how inflation has taken off and sent real incomes into steep decline it is remarkable that Britain is not…
Is Penny Mordaunt the Stop Boris candidate?
Here’s a little mystery: whatever happened to that nice, sensible foursome whom all week we were led to believe were…
How Truss’s resignation moved the markets
If anyone was expecting markets to be in jubilant mood after Liz Truss’s resignation, they will be feeling a little…
Kill the Bill!
The more you study what is going on with the Just Stop Oil protests and the Public Order Bill, the…
Britain needs more honesty about unemployment
Is low unemployment causing us more problems than we realise? The suggestion might seem absurd, offensive even. It’s reminiscent of…
What's wrong with Shell sponsoring British Cycling?
If I were boss of Shell I would be tempted to take the company overseas and live a quiet life.…
Truss is foolish to block Rees Mogg's energy saving campaign
When you have defined yourself against the nanny state and scorned the idea of limiting supermarket ‘two for one’ offers,…
Oil giants aren’t government cash cows
According to Labour, solving the energy crisis is really very simple. Rather than funding an energy price cap through borrowing, as…
Scrapping inheritance tax is a terrible idea
There is no hole deep enough that a Conservative minister cannot muster the spadework to excavate it to even greater…
How to stop a blackout
Will the lights go out this winter? A letter from the energy regulator Ofgem reveals just how seriously it is taking…
The problem with nationalising energy
Is nationalisation the vote-winner which Keir Starmer believes it to be? We will find out in due course, but my…
Can we trust the official employment figures?
In this week of mourning, much of the news which would normally get covered has sunk without trace. Even so,…
Tory ministers shouldn’t fall for these purity tests
Liz Truss’s ministers had not even got their feet beneath the cabinet table before they were treated to a barrage…
What Boris should do next
Just what do you do with the rest of your life if, aged 58, you have been prised out of…
Are the markets scared of Liz Truss?
Look at the chart for interest rate expectations in isolation, and you might come to the conclusion that Rishi Sunak…
Putin’s closure of Nord Stream 1 has left Britain exposed
Few will be minded to believe Russia’s explanation for cutting off Nord Stream 1 pipeline – that it is a…
