Rachel Reeves is to blame for the 3.5% inflation spike
There is no positive spin to be put on this morning’s inflation figures, which show the Consumer Prices Index (CPI)…
Miliband’s wind farms won’t ease Britain’s sky-high energy prices
Rachel Reeves is perhaps not a great fan of Donald Trump, but she should be grateful to him nonetheless, and…
Under Labour, Britain is living beyond its means
The bleak future of the UK’s public finances can be summed up in a few statistics. For the financial year…
Rachel Reeves’s war on family businesses
The Environmental and Rural Affairs select committee is surely right that the government imposed the inheritance tax changes on farmland…
Is it any surprise junior doctors want more money?
If the government was deliberately trying to encourage union militancy, it could not be making a better job of it.…
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,…
