What’s the truth about Sure Start?
Labour, unsurprisingly, is crowing about a paper published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies claiming that Tony Blair’s Sure Start…
The problem with Rachel Reeves’ non-dom tax plan
By abolishing non-dom status, Jeremy Hunt was supposed to have clipped the wings of the shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves. Given…
Scrapping Ofsted would suit teachers – but be terrible for children
There is one thing that seems to have gone missing from the campaign by the National Education Union (NEU) to…
Don’t trust Labour to build houses
Could a promise of more housebuilding win an election, or does the Nimby vote still rule the shires? Labour, it…
House prices aren’t falling any time soon
The thing about having three prominent house prices indices, all of which publish monthly figures, is that they are forever…
Why the council tax rise on second homes helps no one
What a surprise. Given the choice of whether or not to double council tax for second home owners from next…
Martin Lewis is wrong about the ‘energy poll tax’
Given that a fair proportion of the UK public seem to want Martin Lewis to be prime minister, the government…
Thames Water proves privatisation has failed
Why do the Conservatives find it so difficult to admit that the privatisation of public utilities has in many cases…
You’re not being paranoid: smart meters are out to get you
If anyone was still in doubt as to why the government is keen to press ‘smart’ meters onto us, those…
The pension triple lock is a drain on the taxpayer
Jeremy Hunt’s promise that the Conservative manifesto will protect the ‘triple lock’ on the state pension is a desperate measure…
Britain’s high street is still stuck in recession
So, is the recession over? The Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) retail sales figures show that sales volumes were flat…
Gove’s ‘war on landlords’ is not going to plan
Levelling up the housing market, it is fair to say, is not quite going according to plan. Rents in the…
Jeremy Hunt should listen to James Dyson
All Sir James Dyson wanted was to do what hundreds of business people and lobbyists have done before him: spend…
Ed Miliband’s dangerous net zero fantasy
Ed Miliband set Labour back a decade when he not only failed to win the 2015 general election but went…
The middle classes let Banksy get away with vandalism
This is a tale of two murals: one painted on the side of a building in Greenwich by an artist…
How WFH engineers caused an air traffic control meltdown
How lovely that engineers working for National Air Traffic Services (Nats) can work from home rather than having to slog…
Who is going to pay for Rishi’s gas power stations?
The problem with intermittency of wind and solar energy is so obvious that you wonder why is has taken the…
‘Levelling up’ is finished
Just what has the government done to try to retain the Red Wall vote? It seemed when they won a majority…
Why are UK shares doing so badly?
What is wrong with UK shares? While the US, European and Japanese stock markets reach new highs, UK markets are…
Is Amnesty right that Britain has a black mould epidemic?
Are large numbers of children in Britain being killed by black mould in their homes? That seems to be the…
The farce of Drax’s wood pellets
When is the government going to stop pretending that chopping down trees in North American forests and shipping them across…
How Hunt’s Budget could put Starmer in a bind
Time was when a chancellor had to resign for leaking the Budget – Hugh Dalton famously lost his job after…
John Kerry has unwittingly exposed the climate change wheeze
Here’s a good wheeze: prod every last inch of your own country, open the taps and become the world’s largest…
Can the EU survive another five years of Ursula von der Leyen?
Ursula von der Leyen came to the post of President of the European Commission five years ago with a less…
Unreliable renewables will make energy more costly
It is of course good news that the Ofgem price cap for a dual fuel household bill will fall from…
