Trump’s proto-British Empire built on oil
One remarkable thing about Donald Trump’s adventure in Venezuela is just how old-fashioned it is. It is a world away…
There’s a better way for Farage to win the motorist vote
It is easy to see the political attraction for Nigel Farage of promising to reverse Rachel Reeves’s decision to end…
The truth about Keir Starmer’s EU ‘reset’
As Keir Starmer found out with digital ID, what the public initially says it wants isn’t always what it turns…
The RMT has doomed the Oxford-Cambridge railway
Thank God for HS2. The scandal of the ever-more expensive and ever-delayed rail line from London to Birmingham (and now…
I have a ‘zero bill’ home – and you’re paying for it
Ed Miliband has given up trying to promise £300 a year off our energy bills. He is now dangling the…
America is better off without Clare Melford
How tempting it is to rush to the aid of Clare Melford, one of the five people told by the…
Would promising to rejoin the EU save Labour?
Could Labour, under a new leader, go into the next election with a manifesto promising to start negotiations to rejoin…
Why is the Motability boss getting a bumper pay rise?
Until Rachel Reeves tightened the rules in last month’s Budget, Motability customers were able to sink into the leather seats…
Did Britain need to rejoin Erasmus?
Is the government engaged in a campaign by stealth to return the UK to membership of the EU? It couldn’t…
Europe’s EV market is rolling backwards
Imagine you are a keen Brexiteer and opponent of net zero plans, especially of the idea of being forced to…
The special needs racket is out of control
We are, as vicars like to tell us, all special in our own way. But none so much as children…
Climate doom is not science
The costs of not dealing with climate change are, of course, much higher than the costs of dealing with it.…
The day net zero died
Quietly this afternoon, the government’s last remaining hope of achieving net zero by 2050 drained away. BP has abandoned its…
Starmer’s workers’ rights U-turn is a small victory for business
A psychoanalyst might have some ideas as to why Keir Starmer’s thoughts have suddenly turned to the subject of unfair…
The EV charging tax is the coward’s way out for Rachel Reeves
One moral of the Budget is to beware of governments offering you incentives to buy a particular kind of car.…
The Covid Inquiry has ducked the most important questions
The biggest lesson to come out of the first report of the official Covid Inquiry is what a mistake it…
The fatal flaw in Shabana Mahmood’s migration plan
Today we will learn exactly what Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood meant when she hinted last week that the government would…
Who do junior doctors think should fund their pay rise?
I know doctors have a long training and have to absorb a lot of knowledge before they are let loose…
Has Rachel Reeves crashed the economy?
If Rachel Reeves was hoping for a glimmer of good news in today’s GDP figures, she has been left disappointed.…
Starmer must not give in to the Waspi women
If nothing else, the government is providing us with a masterclass in how to lose control of public spending. A…
Rachel Reeves is dragging Britain into a productivity doom loop
Just how much more desperate can Rachel Reeves get? Giving an even heftier clue to Radio 5 listeners on Monday…
The taxman is coming for your electric car
Sooner or later it is going to dawn on the drivers of electric cars that they have been benefitting from…
The ‘John Lewis approach’ won’t fix workshy Britain
Like the John Lewis Partnership he used to run, Sir Charlie Mayfield, who has just completed the government’s ‘Keep Britain…
Budget tax rises will mark the beginning of the long end for Labour
So just what was the point in dragging political journalists out of bed to be addressed by Rachel Reeves in…
The hypocrisy of Labour’s international ‘greenwashing’
There can be no more Panglossian document than the UK international climate finance results published by the government last month.…
