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Never mind bashing ‘profiteers’, slash fuel taxes and green levies

28 March 2026 9:00 am

As chairman of the value-for-money Iceland frozen-foods chain, Richard Walker might be expected to know what he’s talking about in…

So much better than talking

17 September 2022 9:00 am

In all the tributes to Her late Majesty’s constancy, dignity, wisdom and devotion to duty, not enough has been said…

Concrete poetry

14 November 2020 9:00 am

Since technology is developing at such light-speed pace, why does it feel so strangely slow? There is a sense that…

One of the 444 airfields built during the second world war (Photo: Getty)

Remember when Britain could build stuff?

11 July 2015 9:00 am

Heathrow. The whole British story is there. Reading up around that debacle last week, I came across the eye-watering —…