Labour and Unite go to war over oil
There is nothing new about battles between the unions and a Labour government. But could a Starmer government be upset…
Hunt’s tax attack on Labour is sure to backfire
It should come as no surprise that Jeremy Hunt has signalled in a speech this morning that he will try…
Tony Blair paper warns against net zero dogma
Is Tony Blair, like Margaret Thatcher before him, about to become the voice from beyond the political grave that makes…
What Hunt should really do to stop people claiming benefits
It is hard to deny the assertion made by Jeremy Hunt and the Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride that…
It would be ridiculous to clamp down on foreign students
Oh, the embarrassment. The government commissioned its own Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to investigate whether graduate visas (which grant overseas…
The EU has ruined plastic water bottles
Hurrah, the problem of plastic waste has been sorted – as of this summer all plastic water bottles sold in…
Britain is right to stand up to the WHO’s vaccine power grab
The World Health Organisation (WHO) hardly distinguished itself during the Covid 19 pandemic. It was slow to declare an emergency,…
Iceland is perfect if you hate people
No-one seems to like tourists any more. Last week Venice introduced its $5 entry charge — which merely buys you…
Khan may have won, but he should still reverse on Ulez
So what was that all about? Rumours that Susan Hall was close to toppling Sadiq Khan have proved to be…
The local elections have not left the Tories in crisis – yet
The Conservatives have, as predicted, had a pretty awful night, but is there any comfort they can draw from the…
Wes Streeting should be ashamed of his white supremacist Tory jibe
Over the past few years Wes Streeting has established himself as one of the more open-minded and reasonable members of…
Falling migration might not be something for the Tories to celebrate
The good news for the Conservatives is that immigration is down. It looks as if the net migration figures will…
Brexit has not made food unaffordable
Imagine that for the past 30 years all food entering Britain from EU countries had been subject to stringent sanitary…
Why didn’t the Tories nationalise the railways?
The Conservatives can crow all they like about the benefits of privatisation – and make whatever claims they like about tickets…
Who will pay the price for the boost in defence spending?
Rishi Sunak’s announcement that the government will increase defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP has been warmly welcomed,…
What happened to the Tory promise to balance the budget?
There is one big reason why a summer general election is unlikely, however tempted the Prime Minister might be to…
Desperate manufacturers are struggling to shift electric cars
By 2024, UBS confidently predicted in a October 2020 report, the cost of manufacturing an electric car would have fallen…
Welsh Labour’s speeding U-turn shows devolution is beginning to grate
The tragedy of Wales’ 20 mph speed limit, which is now to be relaxed, was that it took a good…
Labour should think twice before taxing pensioners
Labour, according to Rachel Reeves, is now the party of low taxes. She has said she won’t raise income tax,…
Inflation is down again – but don’t expect interest rates to follow suit
Interest rate cuts are beginning to look like a mirage: the closer we seem to get to them the more…
Why one-man plays are all the rage
Well, it’s nice to feel on trend. The Today programme this morning carried an item on the popularity of one-man…
The truth about ‘boardroom diversity’
We all know that increasing the diversity of your boardroom increases the success of your company because politicians, business leaders…
Are we really reaching ‘farmaggedon’?
I happened to be walking in the Cambridgeshire fens this morning while listening to the latest instalment of ‘farmageddon’ –…
The irresponsibility of ‘two years to save the planet’
Hurrah, we can all relax. We have been granted an extra two years to save the planet. So suggested Simon…
Sadiq Khan’s Ulez has spectacularly backfired
What was that about Sadiq Khan’s expansion of London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) supposedly helping to reduce our dependence…
