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Ross ClarkThe Spectator |
Is this the development that is finally going to make us shake off our aversion to electric vehicles (EVs)? Local authorities are reported this...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
You can’t expect anything reasonable when Hollywood gets on its high horse, but really, are our pension contributions truly helping to strip the...
Political office does odd things to parties which were in opposition. Angela Rayner and Steve Reed have written in the Sunday Times this morning...
Why does the government keep setting itself up for failure? It did it with the target for decarbonising electricity by 2030 – which virtually no...
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,...
At last some good news for owners of second homes: Ofgem has ordered electricity providers to offer tariffs which have no standing charges, but...
Is the government’s housing policy aimed principally at increasing the stock of homes and making them more affordable or at punishing Tory voters?...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Cop29 has drawn to a close with arguments over a $250 billion (£200 billion) a year ‘loss and damage’ fund, which developing countries complain...
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...
After reneging on its manifesto pledge to not raise National Insurance, Labour is starting to struggle with another promise: to cut energy bills by...
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,...
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...
Is ‘workshy Britain’ a mirage caused by dodgy statistics? That is what the left-leaning think tank the Resolution Foundation is claiming in a...
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...
Farmers are threatening a national strike over the inheritance tax increases, the first in history. Given how quickly the Labour government yielded...
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,...
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...
‘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...
With an urgency not always noted in plumbers, Charlie Mullins announced earlier this year that he was leaving the country, before even waiting for...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...