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The retail recession

The retail recession
yesterday 10

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Is Europe really faring better than Britain?

Is Europe really faring better than Britain?
yesterday 10

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Beyond Brexit / Is Europe really faring better than Britain?

Beyond Brexit /					 													 						Is Europe really faring better than Britain?
previous day 6

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Starmer should bite the bullet and scrap the triple lock

Starmer should bite the bullet and scrap the triple lock
previous day 7

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Is Europe really faring better than Britain?

Is Europe really faring better than Britain?
previous day 9

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Europe’s car industry is under attack on all fronts

Europe’s car industry is under attack on all fronts
14.01.2025 5

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AI won’t save Britain with one quick trick

AI won’t save Britain with one quick trick
13.01.2025 20

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Liz Truss’s legal threat against Keir Starmer is a mistake

Liz Truss’s legal threat against Keir Starmer is a mistake
09.01.2025 20

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The truth about the LA wildfires 

The truth about the LA wildfires 
09.01.2025 7

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Can the grid cope with many more EV chargers?

Can the grid cope with many more EV chargers?

Is this the development that is finally going to make us shake off our aversion to electric vehicles (EVs)? Local authorities are reported this...

07.01.2025 3

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Border farce / Foreign national crime stats show we have an immigration problem

Border farce / Foreign national crime stats show we have an immigration problem

Britain, as we know, is a country where sex offences are on the rise because toxic males are having their minds poisoned by internet porn, and are...

06.01.2025 3

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Ed Miliband doesn’t understand how energy pricing works

Ed Miliband doesn’t understand how energy pricing works

Are we about to find out the full foolishness of Ed Miliband’s policy of blocking licences for new oil and gas extraction in the North Sea? While...

02.01.2025 10

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Does Starmer really think quangos will boost economic growth?

Does Starmer really think quangos will boost economic growth?

If you wanted some ideas for how to boost economic growth, would you ask the people who run businesses or the quangos which regulate them? No...

29.12.2024 8

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We shouldn’t have a ‘planning system’

If Keir Starmer does succeed in his aim of stimulating a house-building boom, it may be that landowners will have little to celebrate. The...

20.12.2024 2

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Fixing Britains sewers will be fantastically expensive

It isn’t going to help with the cost of living, but Ofwat’s decision to allow water companies to raise bills by an average of £157 (36 per cent)...

19.12.2024 10

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Labour’s messy handling of the Waspi women

Labour is right not to pay compensation to the Waspi women – those who feel aggrieved that the state pension age for women was raised from 60 to...

18.12.2024 10

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The hypocrisy of Hollywood’s environmental preaching

You can’t expect anything reasonable when Hollywood gets on its high horse, but really, are our pension contributions truly helping to strip the...

17.12.2024 20

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Building / The unintended consequence of Angela Rayner’s nature tax

Political office does odd things to parties which were in opposition. Angela Rayner and Steve Reed have written in the Sunday Times this morning...

15.12.2024 3

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Who does Starmer think is going to build Britain’s houses?

Why does the government keep setting itself up for failure? It did it with the target for decarbonising electricity by 2030 – which virtually no...

14.12.2024 3

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GDP decline is not only Labour’s fault

Is the government going to create a recession out of thin air? This morning’s GDP figures from the Office of National Statistics are dire,...

13.12.2024 10

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Ofgem’s standing charge crackdown is a win for the wealthy

At last some good news for owners of second homes: Ofgem has ordered electricity providers to offer tariffs which have no standing charges, but...

12.12.2024 10

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Labour’s planning reforms look like a way of punishing Tory voters

Is the government’s housing policy aimed principally at increasing the stock of homes and making them more affordable or at punishing Tory voters?...

11.12.2024 4

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Syria just proves the West is damned whatever it does

It is salutary to remember that were it not for Ed Miliband, Bashar al-Assad might have been deposed 11 years ago. In August 2013, the former...

09.12.2024 4

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Weight loss drugs won’t solve the obesity crisis

The NHS is about to start doling out ‘the King Kong of weight loss drugs’ to obese patients – the scandal, needless to say, is that not enough...

05.12.2024 5

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The OECD has changed its tune on Britain

Is the OECD doing Labour’s PR for it? I ask only because of its bullish prediction for UK economic growth in its latest economic outlook,...

04.12.2024 3

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Tony Blair is wrong to love nuclear energy

Towards the end of his time in office, Tony Blair came over all nuclear. A new generation of atomic energy plants, he told a CBI conference in...

02.12.2024 4

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Electric shock / EV craze is killing our car industry

It is hard to see where all of Ed Miliband’s ‘green jobs’ are coming from, but we are certainly losing existing manufacturing jobs. Net zero has...

27.11.2024 10

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Is Labour really going to crack down on benefit cheats?

I can’t fault Keir Starmer for his piece in the Mail on Sunday today promising that Labour will crack down on idlers and benefit cheats. But...

24.11.2024 30

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Drill, baby, drill / Is Big Oil back?

Cop29 has drawn to a close with arguments over a $250 billion (£200 billion) a year ‘loss and damage’ fund, which developing countries complain...

23.11.2024 4

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Falling retail sales shows how fragile the UK economy is

Until a few weeks ago it seemed as if the government had inherited if not a golden economic legacy then an improving economic picture. But this...

22.11.2024 2

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Labour’s promise to cut energy bills looks more foolish than ever

After reneging on its manifesto pledge to not raise National Insurance, Labour is starting to struggle with another promise: to cut energy bills by...

22.11.2024 3

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Miracle drugs / Should we worry about Ozempic?

History has taught us to be shy of miracle drugs. But that hasn’t stopped weight-loss drugs being eagerly promoted by fans such as Boris Johnson,...

22.11.2024 5

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Britain is addicted to spending beyond its means

Imagine what the government could do with an extra £9.1 billion a month. It could build HS2 in its entirety within the space of a year. Or better...

21.11.2024 50

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The truth about ‘workshy’ Britain

Is ‘workshy Britain’ a mirage caused by dodgy statistics? That is what the left-leaning think tank the Resolution Foundation is claiming in a...

20.11.2024 9

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Britain is eating itself to death

It is a fate which has been creeping up on Britain for years, but that doesn’t make it any the harder to bear when it becomes official. According...

19.11.2024 3

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Till death / Britain gave up on farmers centuries ago

Farmers are threatening a national strike over the inheritance tax increases, the first in history. Given how quickly the Labour government yielded...

19.11.2024 2

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Is deadly weather being ‘supercharged’?

So that’s it then: the Guardian has declared that we are all being scorched, drowned and blown over by climate change. The website Carbon Brief,...

18.11.2024 2

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My radical proposal for the civil service

I’ve got a better idea for the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union, which is demanding civil servants be allowed to work just four days a...

14.11.2024 6

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Keir Starmer isn’t being honest about his COP carbon pledge

‘It’s not about telling people how to live their lives. I’m not interested in that’ said Keir Starmer of his new target for Britain to reduce...

12.11.2024 3

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Are the super rich really abandoning Britain?

With an urgency not always noted in plumbers, Charlie Mullins announced earlier this year that he was leaving the country, before even waiting for...

10.11.2024 10

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Trump’s victory makes Miliband’s climate plans look even sillier

If you think Donald Trump’s victory is hard enough on Kamala Harris’s campaign staff, spare a thought for the world’s climate activists and...

09.11.2024 4

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Trump’s tariff plans don’t have to spell bad news for Britain

On the face of it, Donald Trump’s threat to impose general import tariffs of 10 to 20 per cent on all goods – and much higher levies on those...

08.11.2024 3

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US election / The reason Kamala Harris is losing

Whatever you think of Donald Trump, watching the mood change in the BBC’s election studio has been delicious. It was like a New Orleans funeral...

06.11.2024 10

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More evidence that the Budget raises taxes for workers

Six days on from the Budget, and things don’t look any better for Rachel Reeves’s claim that her Budget won’t negatively affect working people....

05.11.2024 5

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Can the OBR be trusted?

It was the absence of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s judgment that was blamed for the bond market crisis after Liz Truss’s mini-Budget....

01.11.2024 6

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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 going to have a ‘value...

01.11.2024 3

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Why this Budget could be worse than you fear

It is tempting to think of this Budget as a triumph in expectation management. Rachel Reeves’s minions have briefed us on so many potential tax...

30.10.2024 20

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Brits seem curiously untroubled by Labour’s Budget – at least for now

If the public is worried about what lies in store in Rachel Reeves’ first Budget, there are few signs of it yet in their shopping habits. The...

18.10.2024 4

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Reeves’s Budget is looking increasingly messy

The tragedy of the coming Budget is that it could have been a great reforming Budget. Instead, it now looks like being an extremely messy one, with...

17.10.2024 10

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Technology / Should the UK copy Europe on standardised chargers?

You probably know the frustration: you are sitting there trying to stuff a charging cable into your phone before realising that no, it’s the wrong...

16.10.2024 20

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