Ross Clark

The hypocrisy of Labour’s international ‘greenwashing’

3 November 2025 11:05 pm

There can be no more Panglossian document than the UK international climate finance results published by the government last month.…

Is extinction going extinct?

2 November 2025 5:00 pm

It is getting pretty bitter in the world of evolutionary biology, and it could come down to the survival of…

Is Reeves plotting to short-change the self-employed?

30 October 2025 9:00 pm

It seems pretty certain now that having flirted with just about every tax rise under the sun, Rachel Reeves is…

Has the AI jobs bloodbath finally arrived?

30 October 2025 3:50 am

There has been much wallowing over news that Amazon and UPS have each just cut 14,000 jobs. Some Amazon employees…

Why was Hadush Kebatu paid £500 to leave Britain?

30 October 2025 12:08 am

We don’t yet know what Rachel Reeves is planning to do with the welfare bill in her Budget. Will she…

No wonder Labour has failed to build more houses

29 October 2025 8:36 pm

Should anyone really be surprised at the House Builders’ Federation’s (HBF) warning that the government has little chance of hitting…

Rachel Reeves is doing her best to paralyse the housing market

28 October 2025 8:26 pm

We are still four weeks away from the Budget and already we have had virtually every tax rise floated before…

Health tourism is good for Britain

28 October 2025 3:34 am

Once, foreign nationals came to Britain to freeload on the NHS. Today, UK residents visit other countries for medical treatment.…

Labour is as much to blame for the migrant hotel scandal as the Tories

27 October 2025 9:15 pm

Imagine if a government had set out deliberately to stir up the public over illegal migration, or perhaps to do…

Welcome to Balkan Britain

24 October 2025 9:09 pm

Never has a Welsh Senedd election seemed so interesting; the Caerphilly by election marks a true turning point in history.…

It won’t be long before pensioners are out-earning workers

23 October 2025 1:00 am

Oh, the horrid injustice of it all! By the skin of their teeth, pensioners on the state pension and with…

It’s ridiculous for Labour to blame tax rises on Farage

15 October 2025 10:43 pm

It is day three of Labour’s latest strategy: to try to blame Nigel Farage for the forthcoming tax rises in…

Workers are paying the price for Labour’s National Insurance hike

14 October 2025 7:50 pm

Wasn’t Labour supposed to be tackling the scourge of insecure employment, doing away with exploitative zero hours contracts and giving…

Why does Trump even want a Nobel Peace Prize?

10 October 2025 10:30 pm

Did anyone seriously think that Donald Trump was going to emerge this morning as winner of the Nobel Peace Prize?…

Kemi is right to preach fiscal responsibility

8 October 2025 8:51 pm

At the mausoleum that is this week’s Conservative party conference one of the bodies has just shown a slight muscular…

Lord Nelson wasn’t queer

7 October 2025 11:42 pm

After extensive research I can reveal that Adolf Hitler was not, in fact, gay. Nor was he black, transexual, secretly…

Kemi is right about the Climate Change Act

4 October 2025 1:29 am

According to Theresa May, Kemi Badenoch’s promise to repeal the Climate Change Act is a ‘catastrophic mistake’. Writing for The Spectator today, Ed Shackle,…

Why has Starmer dropped Blair’s university target?

1 October 2025 8:52 pm

Last week, Keir Starner swallowed Tony Blair’s argument for ID cards and announced that all we going to be forced…

Bessent’s private message reveals a Milei gamble

1 October 2025 1:10 am

The first lesson for Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is that digital photography has totally changed politics, as wiser practitioners have…

Trump’s new pharma tariffs will punish Americans

26 September 2025 9:04 pm

Donald Trump has punished European pharmaceutical companies by imposing 100 percent tariffs on their branded products unless they are prepared…

Digital IDs are a nightmare of Tony Blair’s making

26 September 2025 5:51 am

Is Tony Blair pulling the strings of Keir Starmer’s government from beyond the political grave? Only two days ago the…

Let Jaguar crash

25 September 2025 8:09 pm

‘Copy nothing,’ implored Jaguar’s weird advert featuring multicoloured changelings swivelling their heads on a car-free planet. That includes, it seems,…

You won’t believe the latest ruse to make the case for digital ID

24 September 2025 10:30 pm

‘The British public is running out of patience with a state that does not work, where interactions with public services…

Britain’s inflation woes aren’t going away

23 September 2025 11:48 pm

The OECD expects the UK economy to outperform the eurozone and grow by 1.4 per cent over the year. But…

Is Donald Trump right to link autism with paracetamol?

23 September 2025 8:56 pm

Donald Trump’s apparent suggestion that people could protect themselves against Covid by injecting themselves with bleach marked a low point…