The Week
The problem with Labour’s fiscal promises
It is remarkable that in his conference speech in Liverpool, Sir Keir Starmer hardly mentioned the government’s biggest failures. There…
Is this really the end of the A-level?
The history of education reform is a graveyard of acronyms: TVEIs, GNVQs and so on. There have been many well-meaning…
Can Sunak establish himself as a radical?
The Conservatives gather in Manchester this weekend for what may well be their last hurrah as a governing party. Bookmakers…
Rishi Sunak is right to reconsider his green pledges
The old carmakers were slow to realise the potential of electric cars and didn’t innovate. So Elon Musk, an internet…
Portrait of the week
Home Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, proposed reaching net zero in 2050 ‘in a better, more proportionate way’ such as by…
Elizabeth Hurley deserves a damehood
With the boiling, broiling summer here in Provence now at an end, it’s time to start thinking about rehearsing for…
Barometer
Within limits Do 20mph speed limits save lives? – A 2018 report by Atkins/AECOM/UCL found that 51% of motorists conformed…
