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…
Reeves’s glum Budget briefings are hurting the economy
Rachel Reeves’s error before last autumn’s Budget might have been written off as the act of a ministerial rookie. She…
Rachel Reeves is itching to whack up taxes
Gosh, Labour really does hate private landlords. Rachel Reeves’ latest property tax proposal to be dangled before the public is…
Should we worry about Britain’s ‘hottest summer on record’?
So, according to the Met Office, Britain is reaching the end of what will ‘almost certainly’ be the warmest summer…
Record jobless benefits are a national scandal
Quietly, without even a press release let alone a fanfare, Britain over the past 12 months has just passed a…
Is the ‘sixth mass extinction’ a myth?
Are our scientific institutions being colonised by activists less interested in pursing objective truth than in spinning a political narrative? It…
The unions will regret their Autumn of Discontent
Just how thick are the public sector unions? The RMT’s announcement of a week-long strike on the London Underground in…
Why are white children doing worst at GCSEs?
That’s the trouble of trying to measure everything through the metric of race: sooner or later you will arrive at…
Rachel Reeves’s ‘mansion tax’ would distort the housing market
Rachel Reeves’s rather crude strategy is becoming painfully clear. Between now and the Budget she intends to float ideas for…
Labour’s grants won’t save the electric car market
Keir Starmer’s government continues to show off its remarkable ability to please absolutely no one. Reintroducing grants for electric cars…
