The real scandal is how much stamp duty Angela Rayner had to pay
Angela Rayner must resign as Housing Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, obviously. How could she sit on the front bench…
Of course tax rises won’t help economic growth
What’s the most idiotic question ever posed by an interviewer? There was the real-life Sally Jockstrap who asked David Gower…
Digital IDs won’t fix the migrant crisis
Will the compulsory ID card lobby ever give up? For more than two decades it has been trying to exploit…
Trump’s tariff war faces its toughest test yet
Trying to work out what is going on with global trade doesn’t get any easier. Just as the world was…
Reeves’s glum Budget briefings are hurting the economy
Rachel Reeves’s error before last autumn’s Budget might have been written off as the act of a ministerial rookie. She…
Rachel Reeves is itching to whack up taxes
Gosh, Labour really does hate private landlords. Rachel Reeves’ latest property tax proposal to be dangled before the public is…
Should we worry about Britain’s ‘hottest summer on record’?
So, according to the Met Office, Britain is reaching the end of what will ‘almost certainly’ be the warmest summer…
Record jobless benefits are a national scandal
Quietly, without even a press release let alone a fanfare, Britain over the past 12 months has just passed a…
Is the ‘sixth mass extinction’ a myth?
Are our scientific institutions being colonised by activists less interested in pursing objective truth than in spinning a political narrative? It…
The unions will regret their Autumn of Discontent
Just how thick are the public sector unions? The RMT’s announcement of a week-long strike on the London Underground in…
Why are white children doing worst at GCSEs?
That’s the trouble of trying to measure everything through the metric of race: sooner or later you will arrive at…
Rachel Reeves’s ‘mansion tax’ would distort the housing market
Rachel Reeves’s rather crude strategy is becoming painfully clear. Between now and the Budget she intends to float ideas for…
Labour’s grants won’t save the electric car market
Keir Starmer’s government continues to show off its remarkable ability to please absolutely no one. Reintroducing grants for electric cars…
Labour will regret its attack on nature
Environmentalists always feared that Brexit would lead to a weakening of environmental protections, but who would have guessed that it…
Britain has a wind problem
Climate change is giving Britain more violent weather, with ever-increasing storms tearing down our trees and whipping up waves which…
The hot weather has become workshy Britain’s latest excuse
Who are all these people who keep being photographed on Bournemouth beach and elsewhere, frolicking in the midday sun? None…
Regulation – not climate change – is making our flats unbearably hot
If you want to spend the sunny weather house-hunting in East London, you will be met with a stark message…
Rachel Reeves’s assault on the British economy continues
There really is no hiding place for Rachel Reeves in this morning’s employment figures. The Office of National Statistics (ONS)…
Kemi is wrong about council tax
From Lord Kinnock’s demand for a wealth tax and VAT on private health fees to Gordon Brown pressing for gambling…
Reeves is to blame for the next cost of living crisis
Will yesterday’s cut in interest rates bring relief to the government in its economic problems, offering a breather to people…
Higher gambling taxes won’t solve child poverty
As the man who first gave Britain a £150 billion deficit, I don’t think Gordon Brown is the best person…
It’s time to crack down on civil service sick days
Are civil servants throwing sickies en masse in protest at being forced to go back into the office to work…
The OBR has seen sense on migration. Will Rachel Reeves?
High levels of migration might not always be good for community relations if large numbers of new arrivals descend on…
Picking on foreign students won’t solve the migration crisis
We can’t stop the illegal migrants, so let’s crack down on legal ones instead. That pretty well sums up the…
Trump hasn’t won the trade war
Maybe Trump doesn’t always chicken out after all. Rapid trade deals with the UK, Japan, the EU and others in…
