Politicians want to move us towards a cashless world. It would be a disaster
What could be more terrifying than a return to the 15 per cent interest rates with which homebuyers had to…
His first 100 days
Many assume that if an election were held soon, Jeremy Corbyn would win. But what if, say, the government fell…
Crime and prejudice
Beware of jumping to conclusions about Brexit-induced violence
Hostile climate
The subtitle of Al Gore’s new film is ‘Truth to Power’, which is supposed to give the impression of brave…
Road to nowhere
When I heard the government’s announcement that petrol and diesel cars are to be banned from 2040, I resorted, as…
Generation wars
British general elections have often evolved from contests between parties into battles between two opposing themes or ideas. In 1964,…
A hard lesson is coming
Private schools have undermined their charitable status by dashing so shamelessly upmarket
Big boxes are the next growth story
Some time ago my eye was caught by the story of a boy who had taken his father’s credit card…
Out but not down
No group of the population voted to remain in the EU more enthusiastically than students. According to the polling organisation…
The Brexit bounce
Next time it comes to redesigning the PPE course at Oxford, I suggest a module beginning with a quotation from…
Let’s grow our own money
No 1960s vision of the 21st century was complete without an attentive robot-scuttling around doing household chores. At the time,…
Investment: This dragon won’t bite
The western stock-market panic over China is excessive and irrational … so buy now
The Hinkley Point disaster
Britain’s new nuclear plant has hardly left the drawing board, but it’s already a case study in what not to do
Where there’s smoke…
A fixation on carbon emissions will produce many more scandals like the one that has shamed Volkswagen
Osborne rules
The Chancellor has Westminster in his grip
Stop moaning, start building
The trouble with housing associations
Investment: Pump it up
The ins and outs of betting on an oil price bounce
Tony’s toxic legacy
Labour's attitude to wealth is sliding back into the 1970s - and Tony Blair's new career is one reason why
The bill that keeps on building
Giving London’s Olympic stadium a ‘legacy’ is proving to be a very costly business
All together now
Individualism is dead: we have succumbed to the lure of the crowd
The equal pay bomb
Birmingham’s £1 billion equal-value pay claim could make public-sector employment a thing of the past
Power struggle
Bills are still going up in the long term – unless the government acts
The end of the party
The decline of tribal loyalties spells the end of the big traditional political organisations
Welcome to Ryanair Britain
Local councils, banks, railway companies and the taxman have all learned the art of ‘pirate pricing’
The line to nowhere
The government’s high-speed rail plans will never be implemented
