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Rachel Reeves is a true disaster artist
It is genuinely astonishing that Rachel Reeves isn’t accompanied by the Benny Hill theme at all times. Her ability to…
The EV charging tax is the coward’s way out for Rachel Reeves
One moral of the Budget is to beware of governments offering you incentives to buy a particular kind of car.…
Watch: Kemi Badenoch eviscerates Rachel Reeves
Kemi Badenoch had a head-start in preparing her response to Rachel Reeves’s Budget after this morning’s OBR leak. It was…
The Budget has created a £2 million house-price limit
It has lots of original features. It is close to good schools, and with a few cans of Farrow &…
Badenoch’s PMQs attack ran out of steam
Kemi Badenoch had two chances to attack the government today: first at Prime Minister’s Questions, and then again in response…
Exclusive: Military chiefs go to war with Labour
While Westminster is consumed by the fallout from the Budget, I can reveal there is another major headache on the…
Rachel Reeves’s Budget is a shambles
What we have seen today is unprecedented. The entire list of Budget measures announced by Rachel Reeves – along with…
The Comey dismissal is a miniature constitutional crisis
United States District Court Judge Cameron M. Currie, sitting by designation in the Eastern District of Virginia, yesterday dismissed the federal indictments…
Rachel Reeeves’s days are numbered
In her Budget speech today, Chancellor Rachel Reeves will have four goals. Two political – keeping her own job and…
The pointlessness of removing the two-child benefit cap
If the leaks are correct, Rachel Reeves will use today’s Budget to abolish the two-child benefit cap. Another £3.4 billion a…
How bad will Rachel Reeves’s Budget be?
After a needlessly long run-up, Budget day is finally here. Investors, bond traders and house builders are breathing a collective…
Will Rachel Reeves’s two Budget gambles pay off?
It’s traditional to describe Budgets as a political gamble. Rachel Reeves is actually making two bets. First, that voters can…
Starmerism was always doomed to fail
Numerous civil servants have recalled their first encounter with Labour ministers following their election victory last year. After the new…
Charleston notebook: following an English country band through the Holy City
My impression of Charleston, a city I’ve been visiting since my late teens, is that it is oddly more European…
Removing jury trials is a democratic outrage
In June 2020 the impact of Covid led some to argue that trial by jury should be temporarily suspended. David…
They should never make another James Bond film
The 25th and most recent entry in the James Bond franchise, No Time to Die, premiered over four years ago.…
Make Gordon McKee a minister
With his viral video explaining debt-to-GDP ratio through the medium of biscuits, Gordon McKee is putting the ‘nom’ into economics.…
The BBC’s new Civilisations treats us like idiots
Everyone’s moaning about political bias at the BBC. They have done for years. And they’ll continue to. The right’s accusations…
Why would Putin sign Trump’s peace deal?
It was summer 2022. Ukraine had just taken back Kyiv, people were returning to the city, and the mood was…
Only radical change can cut NHS waiting lists
A research letter in the Future Healthcare Journal, laying out the scale of performance failings in the NHS, has attracted a…
Watch: Labour MP’s bizarre Putin warning
To the Commons, where this afternoon parliamentarians have spent some time discussing the G20 and Ukraine. The Prime Minister updated…
No one wants to hear from the Tories
For a party long described as Britain’s ‘natural party of government’, the Conservatives have spent an astonishing amount of time…
The battle for Ukraine’s electric grid
On Sunday, Ukrainian drones attacked the Shatura Power Station located about 75 miles east of Moscow. The 1,500-megawatt gas-fired facility…
Lammy to scrap jury trials in backlog crackdown
Under a shake-up of the legal system, it transpires that juries are to be scrapped in all cases except murder,…
‘Peace’ is just another ploy in Russia’s playbook
Predicting Russian behaviour is a fool’s errand. As a young ‘stringer’ in Kyiv during the dying months of the Soviet…
