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We’re all familiar with the usual trade union cliches: it’s not about us, it’s about passenger safety; staff morale is low; and strikers are...
Britain is beset by low productivity and stagnant growth, and things are not getting better. In the public sector, productivity stands at 7.4 per cent...
We all know about the teachers and train drivers, but apparently there are 100,000 civil servants in 124 government departments and quangos also on...
Today, if you feel so inclined to celebrate it, is Brexit Day: the date on which, three years ago, Britain formally left the EU – although the...
Just what is a UK government supposed to do to keep the IMF happy? This morning it has issued a bulletin predicting that the UK will be the only major...
So now we know what Britain’s great green economy looks like. First, the good news: construction of electric cars in Britain increased by 4.5 per...
Every month, we are bombarded with the Consumer Prices Index (CPI), the main inflation measure. It is currently running at 10.5 per cent, and although...
Remember the Waspi women, who used to leap up and down outside Tory conferences for the right to continue to retire at 60? They claimed that their...
Still resisting installing a smart meter in your home? If so, the National Grid might make you think again – by offering you free electricity. With...
Lucky old Americans. They only had to put up with one fruitcake as president, in Donald Trump. It could have been worse. But for a few hanging...
The dead went unburied and the rubbish piled high in Leicester Square. Then a suntanned Jim Callaghan arrived back at Heathrow from a summit in...
Oil prices are down, wholesale gas prices are down, so why isn’t inflation falling a lot faster than it is? The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) for...
Just why is Chris Skidmore’s review into the government’s target to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 called an ‘independent’ review?...
The idea that we face a certain recession has been drummed into our heads for months. The Bank of England recently produced a graph showing recession...
Labour feels strongly on the NHS – you can tell that by the number of times Keir Starmer brings up the NHS during Prime Minister’s questions,...
The calendar for January is already pock-marked with strike dates for railway workers, ambulance staff, postal workers and others. But does the...
The best thing that can be said about global economic growth prospects for 2023 is that no-one is expecting very much. On that basis, hopefully,...
Unforeseen events which provoke global crises – such as Covid — have come to be known as ‘black swans’. By the same token, the end of 2022 has...
Is there any weather condition which cannot be blamed on anthropogenic global warming (AGW)? No, it seems, judging by the reaction in the US liberal...
Whatever happened to the economic boom that was supposed to follow the Covid pandemic? The 2020s, some argued, would be like the 1920s, with an...
We’re finishing the year by republishing our ten most popular articles from 2022. Here’s number eight: Ross Clark’s piece from May on the crypto...
Economic growth is the third quarter was known to be depressed, but the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has this morning upped its estimate of...
Mick Lynch told Mishal Husain this week that it is about time she started showing partiality to Britain’s working people. Leave aside the assertion...
Could flu really kill 30,000 people in Britain this year as our immune systems, rendered naïve after two years of lockdowns and other anti-Covid...
After a faltering start in its programme of rate rises, the Bank of England is catching up. Today’s half-point rise in its base rate to 3.5 per cent...
Has inflation peaked? The Consumer Prices Index fell to 10.7 per cent last month, down from 11.1 per cent in October. This follows predictions that...
It will come as no comfort to those who have already lost fortunes, but it is remarkable how resilient the crypto currency market has been this year,...
Oxford councillors are feeling rattled by opposition to their proposal to divide the city into six districts and to limit the passage of road traffic...
For climate campaigners, Donald Trump was the anti-Christ, pooh-poohing climate change and withdrawing the US from the Paris climate agreement. But...
We are still a long way from the Winter of Discontent, when 29.5 million worker-days were lost to strikes. Nevertheless, with today’s strike of...
For those of us who remember the miners’ strike in the 1980s it takes some getting used to the journey made by coal miners over the past 40 years:...
Rail strikes on a couple of days when no trains would be running anyway might not seem the biggest inconvenience facing the British public at the...
I hate to pour cold water on the Prince of Wales’ big night out in Boston on Friday, where he hosted the Earthshot Prize for climate change...
The vote for strike action by 10,000 ambulance drivers who are members of the GMB union is more about public safety than about pay, insists the union....
The US entered recession earlier than the UK and Europe, and suffered its inflation surge earlier too, so it was always likely that its economy would...
Rail travel has never been cheap, but should we really each be paying £500 a year even if we never set foot on a train? That, according to figures...
Jeremy Hunt has supposedly just closed a black hole in the government’s finances. But is another black hole opening up before his eyes? One of...
Staging rebellions against their own government has become a way of life for many Tory MPs – but why choose onshore wind farms as the hill on which...
Just why is Britain still spending over £50 million a year in development aid to China? Despite it being the world’s second largest economy and...