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Rachel Reeves may have just killed the Great British pub
It is just after tea-time on Budget day, and my pub is already half-empty. A few hours ago, Rachel Reeves…
Reeves’ Budget could mark the finish line for British horse racing
When Rachel Reeves confirmed in her Budget that horse racing will be exempted from rises in gambling taxes, there were…
Epping is being punished by the asylum system
Just two weeks ago Epping lost its court battle to shut the Bell Hotel and expel unwanted asylum seekers from the…
The revelations about what the Gaza hostages suffered are the most painful yet
The Israeli hostages recently freed from Gaza have begun to speak, and among the new revelations is that some were…
Trump blames Biden for shooting of National Guardsmen
In response to the attack on Thanksgiving eve by a suspected Afghan national upon two West Virginia National Guardsmen, President…
Fact-checking the Venezuela war hawks
As the US Navy remains primed for action in the Southern Caribbean, Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro prepares for what could…
Inside Reform’s £1 million Budget blitz
It can be difficult for challenger parties to make much of an impact on the Budget, with parliament designed to…
Rachel Reeves’s Klarna Budget: spend now, pay later
After the frenzy of the Commons, comes the poring over the fine print. Rachel Reeves’s Budget is being studied across…
Labour’s Budget sparks North Sea fears
True to form, Rachel Reeves’s autumn Budget didn’t land smoothly. The publication of the OBR report she was supposed to…
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.…
