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,…
Ed Miliband is talking nonsense about energy prices – again
I guess I must be one of Ed Miliband’s ‘siren voices’. Writing in the Observer today, the Energy and Climate…
Why is Starmer not fighting the EU’s new carbon tariff?
Why do so many people rail against the trade barriers erected by Donald Trump and yet have so little to…
China bans Boeing in targeted trade war shot
“If it ain’t Boeing, I ain’t going,” goes the old adage, championing the supposed superiority of the company’s planes on…
Why should rich people pay more for their energy bills?
The point of a government energy regulator is supposed to be to make sure that the market is working to…
We have more to fear from net zero than from Xi Jinping
The threat by the Chinese company Jingye to close down Britain’s last two blast furnaces, in spite of the offer…
Is Britain really going to get a trade deal with the US?
Donald Trump loves Britain and loves the King; therefore we can expect a trade deal. That is the gist of…
Is the NHS losing its appeal for Britain’s youth?
The NHS has survived many Conservative governments which, according to their opponents, were out to privatise it. But can it…
Good riddance to Cambridge’s May balls
I’m not usually one to hold back from damning the woke and progressive forces which lie within my alma mater,…
Farage is leading Labour’s policy
For Reform’s supporters drawn from the right of the Conservative party, Nigel Farage’s call to nationalise British Steel never made…
Eco warriors are driving themselves to extinction
It wasn’t that long ago when the fashionable gathering place for young couples was a meeting of the National Childbirth…
Rachel Reeves has managed to grow the economy
Just when everyone seems to be revising down expectations of growth, real world data starts pointing in the opposite direction.…
Don’t expect much from Wes Streeting’s waiting list purge
Well, that’s one way to reduce NHS waiting lists: to kick off a load of patients whom you have decided…
Did Trump really mean to slap tariffs on the world?
So were Donald Trump’s tariffs a negotiating tactic all along – never intended to come into force but rather as…
