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Ross ClarkThe Spectator |
How Chancellors love jacking up the minimum wage, as John Healey has just done in his Budget, by 3.9 per cent. Look, here’s a pay rise on me, he is...
A modest request to HM Government: if we have to have an ‘active travel commissioner’ can we please make it a pedestrian next time, rather than an...
Should we be horrified that The History Boys, Alan Bennett’s 2004 play about a grammar school class applying to Oxbridge in the 1980s, is to be...
Imagine if the City of London were full of largely unmanned office blocks, and that this had occurred not because their former occupants were working...
It will likely only be brief, but the government is in danger of looking half-sensible. Not only has John Healey backtracked from imposing a Capital...
Just how close did Britain’s electricity grid come to collapse on 23 June? Allegations began circulating soon after that date of a cover-up by the...
I can’t fault the sentiment contained in a piece which has appeared under Andy Burnham’s name this morning about the crisis of having a million...
Remember how ‘green jobs’ were going to transform the UK economy, creating new opportunities for well-paid careers which would sweep away the...
I always rather admired the airline pilot who managed to keep two marriages going, one on either side of the Atlantic. His job gave him the perfect...
Has climate hysteria finally run its course? I ask because the latest Hollywood blockbuster on the subject seems to have bombed. Digger, in which Tom...
Has climate hysteria finally run its course? I ask because the latest Hollywood blockbuster on the subject seems to have bombed. Digger, in which Tom...
Zack Polanski’s failure to win the Holborn and St Pancras by-election is not just a disappointment; it undermines the Green party leader’s entire...
At some point there has to be an “emperor has no clothes” moment. Why, when we are in the middle of a boom in Artificial Intelligence, which is...
You can almost feel John Selwyn Gummer, Zac Goldsmith and the rest of the Conservatives’ green lobby quaking. Kemi Badenoch has incurred their wrath...
Exploiting more of our North Sea oil and gas reserves will make absolutely no difference to our energy security nor the prices we pay in the shops...
Andy Burnham tells us that he left the House of Commons in 2017 because he was disillusioned with the place. It was not at all because he had lost the...
Andy Burnham wants to thank the nation’s carers – except, possibly, the one he told us slipped his Granny Kitty’s engagement ring off her finger...
There was a very big hole in the Chancellor John Healey’s claim yesterday that he is going to generate a new age of industry. Why would anyone want...
For Andy Burnham the biggest challenge is to avoid going down like Gordon Brown, who passed up the chance of calling an election in autumn 2007, when...
Small boat arrivals are down a bit. Meanwhile, Reform UK has had a difficult year over its donations and seen its vote eaten into by Restore Britain....
First, the good news. The Commons select committee on energy security and net zero has called on the government to drop net zero. Now the bad news:...
Even the weather has been playing along with the bizarre 1976 tribute act in which we seem to be trapped. We have had a mid-term change of Labour...
When Donald Trump’s political obituary comes to be written, none of his colorful phrases over the years will seem quite as outrageous as his remark...
In a crowded market, the National Air Traffic Control Service (Nats) still has a good claim to be our most croaking public service. Yesterday’s...
It has been clear for years that the UN has fallen under the influence of left-wing activists and rapacious developing countries, who are using it as...
It has been clear for years that the UN has fallen under the influence of left-wing activists and rapacious developing countries who are using it as a...
Who – at least among those of a Conservative mind — didn’t feel a pang of pleasure at the news that Sadiq Khan has been convicted of failing to...
Should public utilities be in public hands? I am prepared to see both sides of that argument, especially as some privatised companies – Thames...
Will the government ever get around to reforming the welfare system? I ask because Andy Burnham seems to have bottled out. It seems that there will be...
We know all about climate change deniers; perhaps it is time we turned our attention to energy bill deniers. This morning Ofgem announced that its cap...
How lovely to hear Education Secretary Lucy Powell sending her ‘massive congratulations’ to children receiving their GCSE results. ‘More of you...
Here it is, finally: Labour’s ‘growth’ strategy. And what does it consist of? Reform of planning laws to make it easier for travellers to set up...
Well done to Reform UK for proposing to make chunky, £50 billion cuts to the welfare budget, more than twice the £23 billion cuts the Conservative...
There are two words you will hear endlessly today: ‘hollow victory’. Nigel Farage is back as MP for Clacton, but by doing battle with a bin, he...
There are two words you will hear endlessly today: ‘hollow victory’. Nigel Farage is back as MP for Clacton, but by doing battle with a bin, he...
Will Andy Burnham call an autumn general election and take advantage of his prime ministerial honeymoon, or will he go the way of his erstwhile boss,...
Trying to pay my taxes via the HMRC website the other week, my bank thought it had sniffed a rat. “Could this be a scam?” it popped up and...
Well, Andy Burnham’s commitment to devolution didn’t last long. It has failed to survive the mildest of challenges: a proposal by Westminster...
For anti-airport campaigners it is a double setback. In the space of 24 hours, legal challenges against the expansion of Gatwick and Luton have...
‘Growth in every postcode’, ‘levelling up’ – whatever you call it, it is easier to sympathise with the general aim of raising living...
I am not having an election because I am going to stick to the 2024 manifesto on which Labour was elected. That’s Andy Burnham’s position, but...
Does anyone really believe that Andy Burnham will succeed in cutting welfare benefits for 16–24-year-olds, as is being reported? Good luck to him if...
Keen to keep up the momentum on his big (or not so big) ideas, Andy Burnham will apparently announce on Friday that in future some revenue from income...
Andy Burnham has made it clear that he doesn’t much like free markets. And they are making it equally clear that they don’t much like him, either....
Many were the voices arguing that Ed Miliband would be a disaster if appointed Chancellor, frightening markets and sending Britain even further down...
We keep hearing that Andy Burnham’s government will be the most left-wing since the 1970s, when the namesake of the new chancellor promised to...
Why not blame Herbert Asquith or Lord Aberdeen? Andy Burnham’s line about reversing ‘40 years of neo-liberalism’ – i.e. since the Thatcher...
Keir Starmer won’t leave much of a legacy, but his last week has brought one thing which will be seen as a totemic achievement in Labour circles: he...
Earnings are taxed too highly, Andy Burnham has hinted, and wealth too little. I don’t hold much hope for a cut in income tax, but I think we can...
I’m a little sceptical of reports that Ed Miliband is prepared to back down and accept new drilling for gas in the Jackdaw field in return for being...
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