Question Al Gore on climate change and he’ll call you a ‘denier’
The subtitle of Al Gore’s new film is ‘Truth to Power’, which is supposed to give the impression of brave…
Mark Carney’s gospel: give us an interest rate rise, Lord – but not yet
Is there anything more predictable than a Mark Carney press conference? The poor sod in Groundhog Day got to enjoy…
Exports are booming thanks to the competitive pound
Remember George Osborne in his hi-viz jacket as he toured the nation’s metal-bashers and gromit-manufacturers in furtherance of his elusive…
It’s a score draw on the economy for Brexiteers and Remainers
Yesterday was a golden day for the Despite Brexiteers – those who try to frame every piece of good economic…
Ignore the scare stories from Remainers over chlorinated chicken
Isn’t it weird how Remainers, so keen to present themselves as pro-free trade when discussing the single market, turn into…
Is Michael Gove really an environmental reformer?
How right Michael Gove was, in his first speech as Environment Secretary, to promise to put an end to a…
Single mothers, not wealthy presenters, are the real victims of the BBC’s gender disparity
There is a group of women who have every reason to feel aggrieved to learn that the BBC is paying Gary…
Don’t fall for the BBC spin on presenters’ pay
Nothing seems to excite BBC reporters more than covering stories about the BBC. You can tell it in the tone…
HS2 is steaming towards budgetary disaster
Byng was the name of the unfortunate admiral executed in 1757, in the words of Voltaire, “pour encourager les autres”…
A recession is coming – but that doesn’t mean Brexit is to blame
The Office of Budgetary Responsibility (OBR) makes a point in its Fiscal Risk Report today that ought to be obvious and…
Are our pizzas really under threat from Brexit?
Last week it was Vince Cable trying to tell us that Brexit was depriving Wimbledon spectators of their strawberries –…
Self-employed workers don’t need rescuing
‘Workers,’ says Matthew Taylor, whose report into modern practices is published this week, ‘should be treated as human beings, not…
Never mind the Tories, another British institution has the lost the young: the BBC
A cherished British institution is facing its Waterloo because young people have come to see it as an irrelevance –…
Why are some on the Left claiming a ‘bonfire on red tape’ led to Grenfell Tower?
Now that Labour councils have been shown to be as much up to their eyeballs in the tower block cladding…
What if Hinkley Point proves Jeremy Corbyn right?
Theresa May spent her first few months as Prime Minister reversing many of her predecessor’s policies. But there is one…
How to solve the public sector pay cap dilemma
Of all the mistakes in the Conservative election campaign, possibly most grievous of all was the promise to maintain a…
Iain Duncan Smith assesses the government’s welfare record
When the Conservatives returned to power in 2010, in coalition with the Lib Dems, lifting people out of poverty was…
Glastonbury wouldn’t survive under a Corbyn government
Only Jeremy Corbyn could speak at Glastonbury and think he was addressing the oppressed proletariat. Glastonbury, he said, while introducing…
Labour and the Lib Dems are as much to blame as the Tories for Grenfell Tower
I haven’t been in Camden this afternoon, so I can’t vouch for there being no marches of activists holding banners…
Theresa May’s problem is that she is far too British for her own good
While I was rummaging through data on what Treasury officials had spent on their credit cards, back in George Osborne’s…
Trying to turn Grenfell Tower into a morality tale about the rich and poor stinks
Who would want to be a political leader in the wake of a disaster such as that of Grenfell Tower?…
Are conservatives a bunch of neanderthals? Some on the left seem to think so
How tragic that the country – and indeed the world – is being dragged rightwards by a bunch of Neanderthal…
Philip Hammond’s Brexit plan is the worst of all worlds
Had last week’s expected landslide actually occurred Philip Hammond would by now be working on his memoirs. Instead, he is…
Let’s stop blaming Brexit for higher inflation
No time has been lost in blaming Brexit for today’s rise in the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) to 2.9 per cent.…
It’s delusional to claim the election result was a vote against Brexit
How deliciously tempting it must be to do as the Times and FT has done today, along with many others…
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