The four-day working week is a sham
The challenger bank sector has been such a graveyard in recent years that I don’t hold out much hope that…
Could Macron trigger British blackouts?
‘We are living the end of an era of abundance,’ according to Emmanuel Macron, ‘the end of the abundance of…
The problem with Biden's student debt plan
In Europe it is handouts to help pay our energy bills – even for people who could easily afford to…
Are Russian sanctions working?
Soaring gas and electricity prices are giving us an idea of the cost of imposing sanctions on Russia – a…
What's to blame for the crash of the euro?
Since June 2016 we have settled into a pattern. Whenever the pound plunges, it is followed by cries of ‘I…
My holiday from the news
My holiday from the news
What’s to blame for the surge in excess deaths?
From the beginning, the debate over lockdowns was skewed by the fact that Covid deaths were imminent – and any…
Is the housing bubble about to burst?
There are so many house indices that they can create confusion. Last week, the Halifax house price index showed a…
Tony Blair's Covid grift
Have we yet seen the end of Covid restrictions? It is tempting to think so. For many people, Covid and…
Can inflation be brought under control?
That today’s inflation figures would come as an immense shock to anyone who has returned from a year in the…
Why the City made a mistake in writing off coal
For anyone tempted to believe warnings from Mark Carney and other City figures about ‘stranded assets’ in the fossil fuel…
Water woes: who’s to blame for the shortages?
Who’s to blame for the shortages?
Who is Gordon Brown to pose as the voice of fiscal sanity?
Gordon Brown is demanding Parliament be recalled for an emergency budget. By October, he says, quoting a study he commissioned…
Are we already in recession?
The Bank of England recently raised hackles by predicting that the economy would shrink in the final quarter of 2022,…
Europe’s looming energy wars
This summer marks a truce. But if, as expected, Liz Truss becomes prime minister, it is almost inevitable that tensions…
Is cash back?
Whatever happened to the great surge towards a cashless society which the pandemic was supposed to bring about? As I…
What a coral reef misconduct claim says about climate science
On Monday, I wrote here about how the Great Barrier Reef is defying predictions of its own demise, bouncing back…
How did climate doomsters get the Great Barrier Reef so wrong?
We are, of course, in the midst of a ‘climate emergency’ and the ‘sixth mass extinction’ of life on Earth.…
How vulnerable are Ukraine's nuclear power stations to attack?
For years, security services have worried about terrorists unleashing a ‘dirty bomb’ – where a conventional explosive is used to…
Rishi Sunak is not stealing from the poor to give to the rich
Until this morning this had been Rishi Sunak’s week. While Liz Truss found herself trying to talk her way out…
Bring on the housing crash!
It has been a long time coming, given that shares and bonds have been falling for most of the year,…
Is the Bank of England's recession warning right?
The Bank of England has warned that Britain will fall into a recession this year. Its Monetary Policy Report, released…
The authoritarianism of British Transport Police
When our freedoms are being taken away we are like the proverbial frog boiled alive in water where the temperature…
Is the eurozone in crisis?
Is the eurozone heading for another 2010-style sovereign debt crisis? Today comes the news that inflation in the eurozone hit…
Is the US in recession?
There’s an almighty debate ongoing in the US about what exactly a ‘recession’ is. Regardless of semantics, the numbers are…
