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…
Don’t pay the junior doctor Danegeld
Who would have guessed that caving into union militancy and paying a whacking above-inflation pay rise, with no strings attached,…
Is Rachel Reeves prepared to raise taxes?
Some of the most infamous words in politics are ‘read my lips, no new taxes’ – uttered by George H.W.…
Reform is now a left-wing party
How much longer are Reform’s critics going to be able to get away with calling it a right-wing party? It…
Britain is enjoying another Brexit dividend
Has there ever been a day when Brexit seemed such a good idea? The story of Brexit began to change…
Is it any surprise doctors are trying their luck with more strikes?
Did anyone really think that the incoming Starmer government was going to appease the public sector unions for long by…
Only now are Britain’s high streets busier than before Covid
Finally, in a horrible week for Rachel Reeves which has seen inflation surge, the public finances take a dive and…
Miliband’s 2030 clean power target looks increasingly impossible
The answer, according to Ed Miliband in an infamously toe-curling rendition of the Bob Dylan song, is blowing in the…
Is Britain heading for bankruptcy?
We can thank Rachel Reeves for one thing: setting up a real-world experiment to show the Laffer curve in action.…
Starmer’s winter fuel U-turn is a big mistake
One of Keir Starmer’s first mistakes in office was to remove the winter fuel allowance from all pensioners other than…
Thank God Angela Rayner isn’t Chancellor
Rachel Reeves may have killed off growth with her raid on employers’ National Insurance contributions, but today comes a reminder…
