Sunak is right to push ahead with new North Sea oil licenses
The green lobby has found another way of attacking the government for giving the go-ahead for new oil and gas…
Will Rishi Sunak’s electric car targets backfire?
Rishi Sunak was attacked by the green lobby for delaying the outright ban on new petrol and diesel cars from…
Did lockdown need to be the law?
At times, the Covid public inquiry has had the appearance of a show trial – one that starts with the…
What’s stopping a housing crash?
Should we really believe that house prices rose by 0.9 per cent in September, as claimed by the latest release…
How Rishi Sunak can finally win over ‘generation rent’
‘We’ve had 30 years of vested interests standing in the way of change,’ Rishi Sunak declared in his conference speech…
Let’s do away with EPC ratings
The Autumn Statement could propose offering discounts in stamp duty for homebuyers who take improvement to raise the Energy Performance…
The weather isn’t to blame for Britons shopping less
It was the weather wot did it, wot stopped us spending in the shops. Yet again, the favourite old excuse…
The Treasury should stop paying attention to the OBR
A year ago Liz Truss’ brief government collapsed when markets lost confidence in Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget. A large part of the…
Why has there still not been a housing crash?
Not for the first time, a widely-predicted – and for many frustrated buyers, hoped-for – house price crash has failed…
Neil Ferguson wasn’t a lockdown fanatic
Is the Covid inquiry running out of steam? Today, it saw one of Covid’s biggest stars take the ‘witness stand’:…
Calm down about bedbugs
Matt Hancock, don’t retire just yet – we may need you back. There’s a new terror spreading across Britain –…
How has Britain avoided a recession?
For the past 18 months, the UK economy has been stuck in the purgatory of an eternally predicted but non-arriving…
Bill Gates has made a surprisingly good point about net zero
Is Bill Gates a sage figure who can help save the world from climate change? Or is he a dreadful…
Britain’s sluggish growth is nothing to celebrate
So, the doomsters have been proved wrong again – not least the Bank of England, which a year ago forecast…
Do social housing residents really age slower?
Great news. Living in a damp home can help you live longer. Admittedly, I am not all that convinced, but…
Starmer’s house-building plan could prove a hit with young voters
The biggest hinderance for the Conservatives is that they have nothing to offer young voters. The Labour party, however, just might.…
High interest rates aren’t the only reason for the house price slump
To no-one’s surprise, house prices fell again last month. Average prices were down by 0.4 per cent in September, according to…
The Pope has gone full Greta Thunberg
At last, the Pope is being taken seriously when he warns of moral degeneracy – well, sort of. When Popes have…
Did the iPhone kill Britain’s productivity?
In the year 2007 Gordon Brown became prime minister, Northern Rock went bust and the iPhone was introduced. But something…
The UK’s GDP is proving Remainers wrong
You can almost sense the agonising among hardcore remainers, the howls of anguish. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has…
Has the true cost of net zero finally been revealed?
When the Commons nodded through Britain’s legally-binding net zero target in 2019 all MPs had to go on was the…
Net zero zealots will probably find a way to stop Rosebank
So, Rosebank is to go ahead, or so we think. The North Sea Transition Authority has granted a licence for…
Will Ulez spell the end for Sadiq Khan?
Sadiq Khan showed little sign of being discomfited by the result of the Uxbridge by-election in July. In spite of…
Is it foolish to think the world can achieve net zero by 2050?
Most discussion of net zero in Britain seems strangely parochial. We only really talk about UK emissions, even though they…
Spurious equal pay claims are a disaster for local councils
Bankrupt councils have gotten into trouble through profligate spending on loony projects like month-long Pride events and training staff in…
