Boris is right: it’s time to scrap the BBC licence fee
Has Boris decided this election is in the bag? I ask because this afternoon he’s made just about the first…
Don’t blame all ‘weird’ weather on climate change
Why can’t the great and good of the climate establishment mention higher temperatures, disappearing sea ice and rising sea levels…
If Labour want cheaper fares then getting rid of train staff is a good place to start
Another day, another uncosted bribe from Labour. This time, Corbyn is promising to slash a third off rail fares and…
This manic tree-planting contest has gotten out of hand
Whoever wins the election, three things are certain: borrowing is going to rise, taxes are going to have to go…
Corbyn’s Waspi pledge only perpetuates gender discrimination
Labour is, of course, wholly committed to gender equality. So why then is it proposing to borrow £58 billion to…
Boris promises an extra 50,000 nurses – but where’s he going to find them?
This election campaign has long since descended into a contest to see who can spray around the largest sums of…
The ten worst ideas in Labour’s manifesto
It is quite a challenge to boil down the Labour manifesto to its 10 silliest ideas, but here are my…
Whatever happened to the Lib Dems’ smart approach to tax?
I have already decided how I am going to vote in the general election: for whichever party produces a manifesto…
John McDonnell wasn’t joking when he vowed to overthrow capitalism
John McDonnell this morning invited Phones4U entrepreneur John Caudwell around for a cup of tea. If I were Caudwell I…
The unseemly race to increase the size of the state
‘Elect me once more and we will finish off socialism for good,’ declared Mrs Thatcher before the 1987 general election,…
The EU is the true successor of the British Empire
Donald Tusk has been ridiculed for suggesting that Brexit marks the end of the British Empire. But he has a…
Labour and Tory NHS cash splurges are a mistake
I’m sending someone down to the supermarket later to do a bit of shopping on my behalf. I have given…
Why the Tories should promise to scrap the licence fee
One wonders what Tom Watson would have left in his vocabulary if the Conservatives announced a policy of kicking away…
Corbyn is right to condemn Boris’s cynical fracking u-turn
For once, Jeremy Corbyn is right. The government’s announcement of a moratorium in fracking is an election stunt – and…
Nigel Farage has doomed his party to failure
Until this morning, Nigel Farage’s creation of the Brexit Party stood as an object lesson in how to found a…
Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal won’t cost Britain £70bn by 2029
Yet again, listeners to the Today programme awoke this morning to hear a dire forecast for the economic consequences of…
The myth of the Brexit business exodus
We are, of course, on the cusp of an exodus of UK businesses as they leave to set up home…
Jean-Claude Juncker has helped Boris immeasurably
As of this afternoon, we really are getting close to the endgame. Jean-Claude Juncker told reporters today: ‘If we have a…
‘Remain or Leave?’ is no longer the key Brexit question
In an astonishing interview on the Today programme this morning, Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson tried to explain why she…
The myth of Britain’s air pollution pandemic
It is a good thing that there is an air pollution bill in the Queen’s Speech today. We should not…
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