It’s no surprise that nurses want to strike
Wes Streeting was recently revealed to have said in private that junior doctors (or resident doctors, as they now like…
The air traffic control failure looks like cock-up rather than conspiracy
The most remarkable thing about today’s air traffic control failure, which has led to at least 45 flights being cancelled…
Has the IMF changed its tune on Brexit?
Given the perilous condition of Britain’s public finances, perhaps we ought to start taking the IMF and its World Economic…
Trump is right about North Sea oil
Maybe it is Donald Trump’s way of getting back at Keir Starmer for Labour sending activists to campaign for Kamala…
What Trump gets right about Britain’s windfarms
Donald Trump is often treated in Britain as a know-nothing who speaks off the top of his head on subjects…
Why couldn’t Britain have dealt with the EU like Trump?
The more you look at the trade deal negotiated between the US and the EU, the more you want to…
Did Trump win the US-EU trade negotiations?
Trump has got almost everything he wanted in the trade deal between the United States and the European Union. Goods…
The BMA should be careful what it wishes for
Just a few weeks ago the trade union movement seemed to be on a high. It has got rid of…
Britain shouldn’t bow to the ICJ
The official cost of the deal to surrender the Chagos Islands to Mauritius – a country which never owned the…
Trump’s Japan deal is a hollow victory
The reaction of markets to the US trade deal with Japan shows yet again that if you presage bad news…
Why don’t we let Thames Water go bust?
Hurrah! We are going to get a new water regulator. Sir John Cunliffe’s independent water commission has recommended that Ofwat…
The youth mobility scheme is just the start of a Brexit reversal
Will Britain continue to be dragged back closer and closer to the EU so that when we eventually rejoin, in…
The hypocrisy of Labour’s attacks on Reform’s net zero plans
The net zero lobby just gets sillier and sillier. According to energy minister Michael Shanks, Reform’s policy of abandoning net…
Will 16-year-olds vote Labour?
Gerrymandering is as old as the hills, and neither of what have been Britain’s two main political parties for the…
Britain can’t afford to let migrants live on benefits
When the history of the next election comes to be written, we may end up asking: was the turning point…
Rachel Reeves’s mortgage reforms reek of desperation
Just how desperate is Rachel Reeves to achieve her elusive economic growth? Desperate enough, it seems, to risk a rush…
Bribing motorists to buy electric vehicles is an expensive mistake
At last, the government has found a use for that large pile of surplus money which has been causing it…
Will Ed Miliband’s climate change speech be a ‘radical truth’?
For once, Ed Miliband is right about something: the British way of life is under threat. But it is not…
Streeting only has himself to blame for striking doctors
Just what was Wes Streeting expecting when, shortly after becoming health secretary last July, he offered junior doctors (who now…
Did 260 Londoners really die in the heatwave?
So, 260 Londoners died as a result of last week’s heatwave, of which 170 can be attributed to climate change.…
Is China funding the climate lobby?
Anyone who questions any aspect of climate doom, or who challenges targets to achieve net zero carbon emissions, is of…
This has not felt like a ‘record-breaking’ heatwave
Thank God for the Guardian website. Without it I would never have known that I have been marching through a…
Three simple ways to stamp out benefits fraud
According to official figures from the Department for Work and Pensions, benefits fraud costs the taxpayer £9.5 billion a year.…
The real scandal of HS2
As if the saga of HS2 could not get any worse, Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander will reportedly announce today that,…
The Welfare Bill is too little, too late
How much of the government’s Welfare Reform Bill will survive the mauling of backbench Labour MPs? If this bill even…
