Could falling house prices be here to stay?
Not for the first time, a gulf has opened up between house price indices. This morning, Nationwide reports that average…
Brexit could fix inflation
Has food price inflation finally peaked? Figures released by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) this morning reveal that food prices…
Fixing food prices is a recipe for disaster
It wasn’t long ago that supermarkets stood accused of selling food too cheaply. Their price wars and two-for-the-price-of-one deals were…
Online shopping has not killed off the high street, yet
It wasn’t supposed to turn out this way, not at the beginning of the year when the wise and good…
Electricity is to blame for stubbornly high energy prices
So much for price-fixing. The energy price cap is finally set to fall, with the result that the average household…
What will it take to crash the housing market?
Is there anything that might cause the much-predicted crash in UK house prices? Not – evidently – a pandemic (which perversely…
Is Germany turning against the EU’s Green Deal?
Last week it was President Macron who was rowing back on green measures. In a speech he asserted that Europe…
Britain’s rivers are filthy
The name Chris Whitty will forever be associated in people’s minds with Covid-19. But in a recent cri de coeur…
Carbon fixation
Europe’s net-zero backlash
BT replacing jobs with AI is nothing to be scared of
BT has announced that it will cut up to 55,000 jobs by the end of the decade. The company currently…
Starmer’s savvy Brexit position
Keir Starmer has made the anodyne demand that Britain seek a ‘closer trading agreement’ with the EU. But why doesn’t…
Britain is becoming Brussels on Thames
Whatever happened to Singapore on Thames? Weren’t we, after leaving the EU, supposed to be forging a future as a…
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…
