I’m calling it: Boris is going to win this election
I am going to stick my neck out and say it’s going to be Boris by 58 seats. How do…
Don’t blame all ‘weird’ weather on climate change
Why can’t the great and good of the climate establishment mention higher temperatures, disappearing sea ice and rising sea levels…
John McDonnell wasn’t joking when he vowed to overthrow capitalism
John McDonnell this morning invited Phones4U entrepreneur John Caudwell around for a cup of tea. If I were Caudwell I…
Trevor Rene’s battle to stay in Britain
When Boris Johnson edited this magazine, it proposed an amnesty for illegal immigrants — a controversial notion, but an idea…
The unseemly race to increase the size of the state
‘Elect me once more and we will finish off socialism for good,’ declared Mrs Thatcher before the 1987 general election,…
Corbyn is right to condemn Boris’s cynical fracking u-turn
For once, Jeremy Corbyn is right. The government’s announcement of a moratorium in fracking is an election stunt – and…
Toxic regulations, not the fire brigade, are to blame for the Grenfell deaths
It has been bizarre to hear the London Fire Brigade taking the brunt of the blame for the deaths of…
Don’t blame oil and coal companies for climate change
This year’s Nobel Prize for the silliest piece of scientific research must go to something called the Climate Accountability Institute,…
It’s unfair for Britain to take Tooba Gondal and other Isis brides back
I am sure that Tooba Gondal, the latest Isis bride to beg for a return to Britain, would, as she…
Bailing out Thomas Cook would have been a mistake
The biggest victim of the failure of Thomas Cook is the worldly reputation of its eponymous creator – a sober…
School climate strikers should answer these two questions
“The Earth is dying”, “the world is on fire”, we’re undergoing an “environmental extinction”: just three of the sentiments which…
The BBC’s latest attack on Netflix is galling
Lord Hall of Birkenhead is feeling pretty bullish about the quality of the organisation he leads. “We’re not Netflix, we’re…
The legal war of attrition against Brexit
Another week, another step along the road to Britain’s transformation into a kritarchy – rule by judges. Last week, the…
John Bercow and the abandoning of the Speaker’s impartiality
According to John Bercow he has chosen to step down on 31 October because it would be the ‘least disruptive…
Remainers may regret not backing an October general election
So there goes the reputation of Boris Johnson’s henchmen as cunning operators. It has been a bad week for Dominic…
Germany’s military has become a complete joke
It is not hard to think of times when German military weakness would have been lauded as good news across…
How renewable energy makes power cuts more likely
At 16 minutes past four on Friday a press officer at National Grid put out a tweet which seemed to…
The secret ingredient of successful seaside towns
The real secret behind Margate’s revival isn’t so much the restored Dreamland amusement park, but the trains. A decade ago,…
Is Britain really heading for a Brexit recession?
The sense of excitement among some Remainers is almost palpable. Finally – after three years of waiting – a quarter…
There is a far better option than HS2 – and it already exists
Just 48 hours before the conclusion of the Conservative leadership contest, Allan Cook, chairman of HS2, wrote to the government…
Boris’s critics are only making him stronger
If, as expected, Boris Johnson heads off to Buckingham Palace next Wednesday to become Prime Minister, I fear that a…
The forgotten joy of soap
Is there any invention as ancient and as fundamental as soap? Traced to Babylonian civilisation around 2,800 bc (handy for…
Boris and Carrie’s staged picture is a PR masterstroke
Whatever you think of Boris Johnson’s ability to be Prime Minister you have to admire the PR skills of Carrie…
There’s no denying the Boris tape was politically motivated
A neighbour records a domestic row through the wall of their flat, takes the recording to a newspaper which then…
Greenwashed: The strange triumph of eco-Toryism
Even before the government this week announced a legally binding target to cut greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by…
