Rachel Reeves’s ‘mansion tax’ would distort the housing market
Rachel Reeves’s rather crude strategy is becoming painfully clear. Between now and the Budget she intends to float ideas for…
Labour’s grants won’t save the electric car market
Keir Starmer’s government continues to show off its remarkable ability to please absolutely no one. Reintroducing grants for electric cars…
Labour will regret its attack on nature
Environmentalists always feared that Brexit would lead to a weakening of environmental protections, but who would have guessed that it…
Britain has a wind problem
Climate change is giving Britain more violent weather, with ever-increasing storms tearing down our trees and whipping up waves which…
The hot weather has become workshy Britain’s latest excuse
Who are all these people who keep being photographed on Bournemouth beach and elsewhere, frolicking in the midday sun? None…
Regulation – not climate change – is making our flats unbearably hot
If you want to spend the sunny weather house-hunting in East London, you will be met with a stark message…
Rachel Reeves’s assault on the British economy continues
There really is no hiding place for Rachel Reeves in this morning’s employment figures. The Office of National Statistics (ONS)…
Kemi is wrong about council tax
From Lord Kinnock’s demand for a wealth tax and VAT on private health fees to Gordon Brown pressing for gambling…
Reeves is to blame for the next cost of living crisis
Will yesterday’s cut in interest rates bring relief to the government in its economic problems, offering a breather to people…
Higher gambling taxes won’t solve child poverty
As the man who first gave Britain a £150 billion deficit, I don’t think Gordon Brown is the best person…
It’s time to crack down on civil service sick days
Are civil servants throwing sickies en masse in protest at being forced to go back into the office to work…
The OBR has seen sense on migration. Will Rachel Reeves?
High levels of migration might not always be good for community relations if large numbers of new arrivals descend on…
Picking on foreign students won’t solve the migration crisis
We can’t stop the illegal migrants, so let’s crack down on legal ones instead. That pretty well sums up the…
Trump hasn’t won the trade war
Maybe Trump doesn’t always chicken out after all. Rapid trade deals with the UK, Japan, the EU and others in…
It’s no surprise that nurses want to strike
Wes Streeting was recently revealed to have said in private that junior doctors (or resident doctors, as they now like…
The air traffic control failure looks like cock-up rather than conspiracy
The most remarkable thing about today’s air traffic control failure, which has led to at least 45 flights being cancelled…
Has the IMF changed its tune on Brexit?
Given the perilous condition of Britain’s public finances, perhaps we ought to start taking the IMF and its World Economic…
Trump is right about North Sea oil
Maybe it is Donald Trump’s way of getting back at Keir Starmer for Labour sending activists to campaign for Kamala…
What Trump gets right about Britain’s windfarms
Donald Trump is often treated in Britain as a know-nothing who speaks off the top of his head on subjects…
Why couldn’t Britain have dealt with the EU like Trump?
The more you look at the trade deal negotiated between the US and the EU, the more you want to…
Did Trump win the US-EU trade negotiations?
Trump has got almost everything he wanted in the trade deal between the United States and the European Union. Goods…
The BMA should be careful what it wishes for
Just a few weeks ago the trade union movement seemed to be on a high. It has got rid of…
Britain shouldn’t bow to the ICJ
The official cost of the deal to surrender the Chagos Islands to Mauritius – a country which never owned the…
Trump’s Japan deal is a hollow victory
The reaction of markets to the US trade deal with Japan shows yet again that if you presage bad news…
Why don’t we let Thames Water go bust?
Hurrah! We are going to get a new water regulator. Sir John Cunliffe’s independent water commission has recommended that Ofwat…
