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…
Rachel Reeves’s Spending Review is a recipe for trouble
Rachel Reeves will apparently tell us today that she has chosen stability over chaos. It is one of the Chancellor’s…
Sizewell C won’t save Ed Miliband
Ed Miliband has suddenly realised that you cannot run an electricity grid on intermittent renewables alone. The Energy Secretary’s announcement…
Cut the Border Force budget
Whatever happened to the great promise to ‘smash’ the smuggling gangs? When it came to power just under a year…
Could the Winter Fuel Payment fiasco bring down Rachel Reeves?
When the Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced that she was withdrawing the Winter Fuel Payment from most pensioners on the same…
Labour won’t win back the north with new trams
So now we know how Labour intends to try to head-off the threat from Reform UK. It is going to…
It will take more than 3% to make Britain ‘battle ready’
Does anyone really think that spending 3 per cent of GDP on defence would make Britain ‘battle-ready’, as Keir Starmer…
Net zero is a gift to Nigel Farage in Scotland
It wasn’t long ago that Nigel Farage seemed a hopeless sell in Scotland. In 2013, on his way to campaign…
Starmer’s welfare cuts are nothing like ‘Tory austerity’
Keir Starmer has already folded on the winter fuel payment, promising a partial reversal of the policy by reinstating it…
