Kemi is right about the Climate Change Act
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?
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
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
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
Is Tony Blair pulling the strings of Keir Starmer’s government from beyond the political grave? Only two days ago the…
Let Jaguar crash
‘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
‘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
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?
Donald Trump’s apparent suggestion that people could protect themselves against Covid by injecting themselves with bleach marked a low point…
Gatwick expansion won’t happen any time soon
How refreshing to hear transport secretary Heidi Alexander approve plans for a second working runway at Gatwick Airport, taking on…
Borrowing is spiralling out of control
There really is no good news for Rachel Reeves as she prepares her second Budget. This morning’s borrowing figures are not…
Why didn’t TfL publish the truth about LTNs?
Policymakers must, of course, stick to the evidence and base their decisions around proper, peer-reviewed research. Until, that is, the…
Rachel Reeves’s legacy is going to be dismal
For some time, the Budget on 26 November has been looking as if it might be Rachel Reeves’ final fling…
Why Britain can’t build
The government promised to build 1.5 million new homes over the course of this parliament. How close are they to…
Trump returns to backwater Britain
President Trump returns to Britain this week for his second state visit, to a country which is much changed yet…
The NHS is right to drive a hard bargain for new drugs
It is not often that the NHS gets accused of being too good at negotiating down costs. But that seems…
Autism isn’t a ‘superpower’
A very warm welcome for Margaret Thatcher inside autism’s ever-growing tent – if she can find space to wield her…
Britain’s growth figures are even worse than they look
Keir Starmer should be thankful for Lord Mandelson. Were it not for scandal over the Mandelson’s connections with Jeffrey Epstein,…
Ed Miliband’s lonely war on the North Sea
When even green energy tycoons are telling him to embrace the North Sea oil and gas industries, Ed Miliband really…
Is this the real reason Brits are taking so many sick days?
Are Britons getting sicker and sicker – or is our health improving? There seems to be something of a paradox.…
Angela Rayner is the victim of a convoluted tax system
Here is a rather delightful fact. For 13 years between 2010 and 2023 Britain had a quango called the Office…
The real scandal is how much stamp duty Angela Rayner had to pay
Angela Rayner must resign as Housing Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, obviously. How could she sit on the front bench…
Of course tax rises won’t help economic growth
What’s the most idiotic question ever posed by an interviewer? There was the real-life Sally Jockstrap who asked David Gower…
Digital IDs won’t fix the migrant crisis
Will the compulsory ID card lobby ever give up? For more than two decades it has been trying to exploit…
Trump’s tariff war faces its toughest test yet
Trying to work out what is going on with global trade doesn’t get any easier. Just as the world was…
