What will it take to crash the housing market?
Is there anything that might cause the much-predicted crash in UK house prices? Not – evidently – a pandemic (which perversely…
Is Germany turning against the EU’s Green Deal?
Last week it was President Macron who was rowing back on green measures. In a speech he asserted that Europe…
Britain’s rivers are filthy
The name Chris Whitty will forever be associated in people’s minds with Covid-19. But in a recent cri de coeur…
Europe is turning against net zero
Europe’s net-zero backlash
BT replacing jobs with AI is nothing to be scared of
BT has announced that it will cut up to 55,000 jobs by the end of the decade. The company currently…
Starmer’s savvy Brexit position
Keir Starmer has made the anodyne demand that Britain seek a ‘closer trading agreement’ with the EU. But why doesn’t…
Britain is becoming Brussels on Thames
Whatever happened to Singapore on Thames? Weren’t we, after leaving the EU, supposed to be forging a future as a…
Justin Welby’s climate confusion
It is widely expected that Justin Welby, having now screwed the crown on Charles III’s head, will shortly retire as…
Can reforms save the London stock market?
The decline of the UK stock market has finally reached the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). It has proposed to deregulate…
When does a banking wobble become a crisis?
Can a banking crisis really be going this well? After a week of panic withdrawals and a crashing share price,…
Can Britain become the Saudi Arabia of carbon capture?
Boris Johnson wanted to make Britain ‘the Saudi Arabia of wind’. But Grant Shapps is keen to send Britain’s green…
Cambridge’s ‘cycle-friendly’ roundabout is needlessly dangerous
There is nothing more boring than potholes. I remember that from my own days as a parish councillor. It saps…
The Bank of England is right: Brits can’t keep demanding pay rises
Bank of England chief economist Huw Pill isn’t going to win a popularity contest. Speaking on a podcast for Columbia…
Why are we allowing solar panels to swallow up our farmland?
We have spent a year talking about energy security, but with inflation in food prices running at 19 per cent,…
Newsnight stoops to a new low in its climate protest coverage
Has the BBC been invaded by a cabal of Extinction Rebellion protesters who have tied up the Director General in…
Don’t blame the rain for the drop in high street shopping
Did retail sales really fall in March because of the wet weather? This is the excuse being trotted out by…
Michael O’Leary’s Brexit jibe is a step too far
Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary never has exactly been the master of tact, but will his latest outburst make his customers…
What would it take for house prices to crash?
Just what would it take to induce a housing price crash in Britain? Evidently, more than a Bank of England…
Net zero will make flying more expensive
Are we going to have to give up flying to save the planet? Many climate campaigners have been saying so…
Is this the end of long Covid?
How big a deal is long Covid and can it be treated? Opinions range from it being a serious impediment to…
Interest rates can’t go back to being as low as they were
Good news – at least for those who hold faith in economic forecasts. The IMF has just eradicated half the…
Nigel Lawson’s legacy is one of British transformation
The path from the editor’s chair at The Spectator to 11 Downing Street was not untrodden when Mrs Thatcher asked…
By reducing oil production, Opec is only helping Russia
Just when we thought inflationary forces were softening, the price of crude oil has shot up sharply today in response…
What the new Attenborough series doesn’t tell you
The new Attenborough series needs challenging
The CPTPP trade deal shatters the ‘little Englander’ Brexit myth
Britain’s acceptance into the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) will be presented by the government as a triumph,…
