Budget 2025

Labour may have lost the countryside forever

22 November 2025 9:00 am

Before the last election, Keir Starmer promised that his party’s relationship with the countryside would be ‘based on respect, on…

The UK’s tax take, take, take

15 November 2025 9:00 am

Helping her country ski ever more steeply down the wrong side of the Laffer curve, Rachel Reeves may be preparing…

Income tax must rise ­– but Rachel Reeves must go

8 November 2025 9:00 am

Call me hard-hearted, but I doubt even a magic mushroom-induced tantric visualisation of a harmonious universe could transport me into…

The rudeness of Reform

8 November 2025 9:00 am

Critics see Rachel Reeves as betraying her election manifesto tax promises; but she may well be trying ‘The Lady’s Not…