Is staff sickness crippling the NHS?
Some £22 billion of the £40 billion in tax rises the Chancellor announced this week will go straight to the…
Has Labour given up on the City?
It seems that the Budget isn’t going down terribly well in the City. Ministers have been out on the airwaves,…
Labour’s by-election nightmare
Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour party has not had the easiest time in government so far – and last night’s local…
Will the ‘value for money’ tsar really overrule Rachel Reeves?
Is there any word more laughably misapplied than ‘tsar’? We have already had an ‘antisemitism tsar’ and now we are…
The path to falling university rankings is paved with bureaucratic intentions
Regulation of speech leads to regulation of thought
Values, ethics: what’s the difference?
In response to a decision by Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post, not to endorse a Presidential candidate,…
Why France’s media is keeping quiet about Michel Barnier’s health
France’s 73-year-old prime minister, Michel Barnier, underwent surgery last weekend for a lesion on his upper neck. According to the…
Can Labour save its Budget?
After the Office for Budget Responsibility’s assessment of the Budget was published on Wednesday, the cost of government borrowing started…
Watch: Darren Jones admits Budget will hit working people
Well, well, well. It’s day three of the Budget and it appears that Rachel Reeves’s fiscal statement has begun to…
Team Badenoch vs Team Jenrick: A beginner’s guide
The end is in sight. The polls have closed. On Saturday, the result of the Tory leadership contest will be…
There may soon be peace in Lebanon
If the leaks and briefings are to be believed, Israel is getting ready to end its war in Lebanon. With…
Radiohead’s Thom Yorke has the perfect riposte to the anti-Israel bores
Finally, a celeb has stood up to the Israel bashers. It took the famously dour frontman of Radiohead to do…
The Women’s Equality Party deserves its fate
Of all the grotesque modern types who cast a silly-yet-sinister shadow over the dog-days of Western civilisation – the Queers…
Britain can grow faster than the OBR thinks
The UK economy may end up growing a bit faster by the end of this decade than the Office for…
Albo’s flight upgrade saga reflects self-entitlement culture
We are living in an age of self-entitlement. Former AFR columnist Joe Aston’s ‘story about power in the shadows’ has…
Once we were…
The Guinness Book of Records was a big thing in the 1970s. Every house had a copy. The book contained all…
Queensland: free of Labor, but not yet free
Allow me to offer my congratulations to the people of Queensland. We have freed ourselves from the inexcusable abuse perpetrated…
Labour’s farm tax makes no sense
Amid the furore over Lord Alli’s contributions to Lady Starmer’s wardrobe the new environment secretary, Steve Reed, was able to…
When it comes to trash talk, you can’t beat the Donald
‘Garbage In, Garbage Out’ is a computer programming principle which states that the quality of a system’s output is determined…
Can Rachel Reeves calm the markets?
The more investors dig into Labour’s first Budget, the less they seem to like it. After the Office for Budget…
China hawks hit back at Lammy rapprochement
First, it was the Chagos Islands. Then it was David Lammy’s visit. Now many in Westminster are asking: when it…
What’s upset Kim Jong Un?
When Kim Jong Un does not get what he wants, he makes his displeasure known far and wide. Over the…
A warm welcome in Salem from women and witches
Pulling up at Marblehead’s Harbor Light Hotel, my oldest friend and I wasted no time securing two counter seats at…
Treasury staff leave a mess after Budget tax hikes
For most Brits, there was little to celebrate in Rachel Reeves’s fiscal statement – but that didn’t stop Treasury staff…
Businessman tears up over Labour’s Budget
The first full day post-Budget has not been a happy one. While Labour’s spinners are hard at work trying to…
