Ross Clark

Can the OBR be trusted?

2 November 2024 4:15 am

It was the absence of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s judgment that was blamed for the bond market crisis after…

Will the ‘value for money’ tsar really overrule Rachel Reeves?

1 November 2024 11:22 pm

Is there any word more laughably misapplied than ‘tsar’? We have already had an ‘antisemitism tsar’ and now we are…

Why should we trust the IMF?

1 November 2024 12:19 am

It wasn’t an aggrieved business leader, facing a sharply increased wage bill thanks to the Budget, that led the 8…

The markets don’t like this Budget much

31 October 2024 5:26 am

It has been a good day for investors in the Alternative Investment Market (Aim), with the index of the top…

Why this Budget could be worse than you fear

30 October 2024 4:00 pm

It is tempting to think of this Budget as a triumph in expectation management. Rachel Reeves’s minions have briefed us…

Does Rachel Reeves have to hike taxes?

28 October 2024 11:47 pm

Could Rachel Reeves’s ‘black hole’ be filled not through tax rises or even spending cuts but rather through getting an…

The real problem with Rachel Reeves’s Budget fiddle

25 October 2024 10:13 pm

Remember Gordon Brown’s ‘golden rule’ – that over the course of the economic cycle the only net borrowing he would…

Why the call for slavery reparations is a scam

25 October 2024 12:08 am

It would be a shame if Britain were forced to leave the Commonwealth, given the great work it has done…

Will the Chancellor widen the public-private pension gap?

23 October 2024 10:26 pm

Could Rachel Reeves really be so brazen as to lumber private sector employers with having to pay national insurance contributions…

The UK’s debts are horrifyingly large

22 October 2024 8:38 pm

There is a big danger in today’s government borrowing figures for September being a little less bad than was expected…

Why Wes Streeting’s ‘prevention’ agenda is sinister

21 October 2024 11:43 pm

Who could possibly object to Wes Streeting’s plan to turn the NHS ‘from hospital to neighbourhood’ and from ‘sickness to…

Brits seem curiously untroubled by Labour’s Budget – at least for now

18 October 2024 11:20 pm

If the public is worried about what lies in store in Rachel Reeves’ first Budget, there are few signs of…

Should the UK copy Europe on standardised chargers?

16 October 2024 5:00 pm

You probably know the frustration: you are sitting there trying to stuff a charging cable into your phone before realising…

Tim Davie and the death of BBC ‘talent’

15 October 2024 4:57 pm

Has anyone ever come up with a better put-down for Nick Robinson? It is even better that it came from…

Is Labour’s Britain really an investor’s paradise?

14 October 2024 8:33 pm

So, is it really time in invest in Britain, as the heads of fourteen banks and other financial institutions have…

Labour will regret its war with P and O

12 October 2024 6:34 pm

Labour’s Employment Rights Bill promises workers flexible working, is supposed to protect them from unfair dismissal from day one of…

Ron DeSantis’s climate bill has nothing to do with Hurricane Milton

10 October 2024 10:12 pm

Hurricane Milton has left more than two million homes and businesses in Florida without power and threatens to be a…

How bad will Hurricane Milton be?

10 October 2024 2:51 am

‘Astronomical’; the ‘strongest storm in a century’; ‘nearing the mathematical limit for a storm’ – the increasingly fraught descriptions of…

Does Britain really want less immigration?

9 October 2024 10:00 pm

The economy shrinks quarter by quarter; whole streets of houses in northern towns are abandoned, schools start closing for want…

Ordering water firms to cut bills is a mistake

8 October 2024 11:08 pm

Water companies have sweated the assets they were handed upon privatisation in the late 1980s. They have failed to invest properly,…

What’s the truth about ‘irregular migration’ levels?

8 October 2024 3:19 am

Should we trust a new study that claims that the level of irregular migration in the UK has essentially not…

Private schools should be cheaper

6 October 2024 6:39 pm

Independent schools are an asset to the education system and they have been singled out by Labour for a tax…

Is there really a private school exodus?

5 October 2024 10:00 pm

Will Labour actually gain some revenue for slapping VAT on school fees, or is it heading for fiscal embarrassment as…

What has become of the Wellcome Collection?

5 October 2024 9:00 am

In 2022 the Wellcome Collection caused a stir by closing its Medicine Man exhibition on the grounds that it was…

Ed Miliband’s ‘new era’ for energy policy is anything but

5 October 2024 12:03 am

How the ground is shifting now that Labour finds itself in government and is actually responsible for UK energy policy.…