What’s the truth about immigration and economic growth?
If the consequences of Labour’s heavy losses in the local elections were not already clear, they became so in this…
Will Trump’s war on Big Pharma work?
Cynics will scoff at Donald Trump’s latest initiative: issuing an executive order forcing pharmaceutical companies to lower the prices of…
Do high taxes make you less generous?
Here’s a question: do you think that Bill Gates would have started and built up his Microsoft empire had the…
Could Trump’s UK deal start a golden age of free trade?
We had the shock of ‘Liberation day’ when punitive tariffs were levied on imports from virtually every country in the…
Why are the Tories now against free trade?
Wasn’t a trade deal with India supposed to be one of the big gains from Brexit – an example of…
Wes Streeting won’t end the 8am GP appointment scramble
You can say it for Wes Streeting: he doesn’t hang about. Reacting to the heavy loss of council seats in…
Chambers of horrors: The radical barristers who really lay down the law in Britain
The facade of Garden Court Chambers in Lincoln’s Inn Fields is reassuringly traditional. The barristers who work there occupy buildings…
The M&S hack proves the danger of the ‘internet of things’
A man from John Lewis came yesterday to measure up for some window blinds. When he started struggling with the…
Did winter fuel payments win Runcorn for Reform?
There is little disguising what is surely going to be the prevailing story as council election results pour in from…
Norway is laughing at Miliband’s net zero folly
Here’s a pub quiz question: which European country has no net zero target? I don’t mean which country is not…
Was ‘Liberation Day’ just shock therapy?
With Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announcing that a trade deal between the US and India could be imminent, it once…
Tony Blair attacks Ed Miliband over Net Zero
Ouch! Tony Blair had only recently left office when Ed Miliband, a protégé of Gordon Brown, drove the Climate Change…
Could Torsten Bell be the next chancellor?
Rachel Reeves may have helped run up a £151 billion deficit in the past 12 months (with a little help…
Taxing milkshakes won’t solve the obesity crisis
It was supposed to be the broadest shoulders who were going to fund the government’s overspending. Now it seems to…
Labour must refuse pay rises for teachers and nurses
Never was there more truth in the old adage about every organisation that is not specifically right-wing eventually becoming left-wing.…
The EU’s new travel rules won’t stop illegal migration
Like it or not, for ordinary people, Brexit is about to make itself felt in a way which it has…
Fact check: is Ed Miliband right to say tax rises don’t affect gas prices?
It’s official: subjecting oil and gas companies to a 78 pence tax rate (which is corporation tax plus the government’s…
No, Ed Miliband: zonal pricing won’t cut energy bills
Is Ed Miliband going to announce a move towards a zonal electricity market, where wholesale prices would vary between regions…
Is net zero possible without slave labour?
So, Ed Miliband has relented, and decided that after all it is not a good idea to build his green…
No wonder tourists don’t want to come to Britain
Compared with the mobs chanting against sunbathers on Tenerife or the new entry fee just to set foot in Venice,…
Ed Miliband is talking nonsense about energy prices – again
I guess I must be one of Ed Miliband’s ‘siren voices’. Writing in the Observer today, the Energy and Climate…
Why is Starmer not fighting the EU’s new carbon tariff?
Why do so many people rail against the trade barriers erected by Donald Trump and yet have so little to…
China bans Boeing in targeted trade war shot
“If it ain’t Boeing, I ain’t going,” goes the old adage, championing the supposed superiority of the company’s planes on…
Why should rich people pay more for their energy bills?
The point of a government energy regulator is supposed to be to make sure that the market is working to…
We have more to fear from net zero than from Xi Jinping
The threat by the Chinese company Jingye to close down Britain’s last two blast furnaces, in spite of the offer…
