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Asda and the absurdity of ‘work of equal value’ 

Asda and the absurdity of ‘work of equal value’ 
yesterday 40

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Starmer is falling into the EU’s trap 

Starmer is falling into the EU’s trap 
previous day 10

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Liz Kendall’s benefits crusade could make or break Labour’s fortunes

sunday 10

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Why sacrificing farmland for net zero is a big mistake

Why sacrificing farmland for net zero is a big mistake
31.01.2025 2

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Britain is not ready to give up North Sea oil and gas

Britain is not ready to give up North Sea oil and gas
30.01.2025 8

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Will public sector workers return to their desks for Donald Trump?

Will public sector workers return to their desks for Donald Trump?
29.01.2025 3

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Is Rachel Reeves right that there is no trade-off between growth and net zero?

Is Rachel Reeves right that there is no trade-off between growth and net zero?
29.01.2025 6

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Labour will regret extending the BBC licence fee

Labour will regret extending the BBC licence fee
29.01.2025 10

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Councils shouldn’t be allowed to raise tax by 25%

Councils shouldn’t be allowed to raise tax by 25%
28.01.2025 20

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Heathrow’s third runway won’t improve London’s air quality

Heathrow’s third runway won’t improve London’s air quality
27.01.2025 9

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Why won’t Britain take the Covid lab leak theory seriously?

26.01.2025 7

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Skiing is ghastly

Skiing is ghastly
26.01.2025 20

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Snow show / Skiing is ghastly

Snow show /					 													 						Skiing is ghastly
25.01.2025 10

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Why are so many MPs still clueless about the cost of Net Zero?

Why are so many MPs still clueless about the cost of Net Zero?
24.01.2025 20

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The borrowers / Rachel Reeves’ tinkering won’t rescue Britain’s economy

The borrowers /					 													 						Rachel Reeves’ tinkering won’t rescue Britain’s economy
22.01.2025 10

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Trump exposes the madness of Ed Miliband’s energy plans

Trump exposes the madness of Ed Miliband’s energy plans
21.01.2025 6

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Trump won’t respect David Lammy’s fawning

Trump won’t respect David Lammy’s fawning
20.01.2025 3

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The retail recession

The retail recession
17.01.2025 10

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Is Europe really faring better than Britain?

Is Europe really faring better than Britain?
17.01.2025 10

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Beyond Brexit / Is Europe really faring better than Britain?

Beyond Brexit /					 													 						Is Europe really faring better than Britain?
16.01.2025 6

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Starmer should bite the bullet and scrap the triple lock

Starmer should bite the bullet and scrap the triple lock
16.01.2025 7

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Is Europe really faring better than Britain?

Is Europe really faring better than Britain?
16.01.2025 9

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Europe’s car industry is under attack on all fronts

Europe’s car industry is under attack on all fronts
14.01.2025 5

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AI won’t save Britain with one quick trick

13.01.2025 20

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Liz Truss’s legal threat against Keir Starmer is a mistake

09.01.2025 20

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The truth about the LA wildfires 

09.01.2025 7

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Can the grid cope with many more EV chargers?

Is this the development that is finally going to make us shake off our aversion to electric vehicles (EVs)? Local authorities are reported this...

07.01.2025 3

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Border farce / Foreign national crime stats show we have an immigration problem

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...

06.01.2025 3

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Tommy Robinson isn’t the story here

Elon Musk’s Twitter attack on Jess Phillips is certainly offensive. It may even deserve to be called a ‘disgraceful smear’, as Wes Streeting put...

05.01.2025 3

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The banking system’s net zero reckoning

It all seemed so unstoppable in April 2021 when a group of the world’s banks, under the guidance of former Bank of England governor turned UN envoy...

05.01.2025 20

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The fatal flaw in Labour’s vote reform plans

Keir Starmer’s government won’t be the first to engage in gerrymandering when it seeks to lower the voting age from 18 to 16, inviting into the...

03.01.2025 20

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Ed Miliband doesn’t understand how energy pricing works

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...

02.01.2025 10

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Starmer’s queue-cutting blunder shows he isn’t very good at politics

Who would want to be Prime Minister, when even an innocent holiday can lead to a PR disaster? Keir Starmer had to cancel his summer holiday last...

02.01.2025 10

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Why has ‘decolonising’ Sadiq Khan accepted a knighthood?

If you are going to give gongs for public service, I guess a three-times elected London mayor ought to be a candidate. True, it is hard to see what...

31.12.2024 10

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Elon Musk is the real leader of the opposition

No wonder the left hates X so much. Elon Musk is using it to carve himself a role as Britain’s unofficial opposition – a role at which he is...

30.12.2024 2

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Does Starmer really think quangos will boost economic growth?

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...

29.12.2024 8

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What was Badenoch hoping to achieve with her attack on Farage?

Kemi Badenoch believes she has caught out Nigel Farage with a bit of digital sleuthing. No sooner had Farage announced that the official membership...

27.12.2024 10

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Labour is out of its depth with electric cars

When Vauxhall announced the closure of its Luton plant a few weeks ago it seemed that the government had finally woken up to how the Zero Emission...

24.12.2024 3

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What happened to ‘growth, growth, growth’?

This is hardly how 2024 was supposed to end for Labour. Free from the shackles of ‘14 years of Tory misrule’, the economy was supposed to take...

23.12.2024 7

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We shouldn’t have a ‘planning system’

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...

20.12.2024 2

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Britain is living beyond its means

Today’s figures on the public finances and retail sales will bring some relief to Rachel Reeves; both show a small positive direction. In November,...

20.12.2024 3

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Fixing Britains sewers will be fantastically expensive

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)...

19.12.2024 10

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Labour’s messy handling of the Waspi women

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 66...

18.12.2024 10

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The hypocrisy of Hollywood’s environmental preaching

You can’t expect anything reasonable when Hollywood gets on its high horse, but really, are our pension contributions truly helping to strip the...

17.12.2024 20

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Building / The unintended consequence of Angela Rayner’s nature tax

Political office does odd things to parties which were in opposition. Angela Rayner and Steve Reed have written in the Sunday Times this morning...

15.12.2024 3

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Who does Starmer think is going to build Britain’s houses?

Why does the government keep setting itself up for failure? It did it with the target for decarbonising electricity by 2030 – which virtually no...

14.12.2024 4

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GDP decline is not only Labour’s fault

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, showing...

13.12.2024 10

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Ofgem’s standing charge crackdown is a win for the wealthy

At last some good news for owners of second homes: Ofgem has ordered electricity providers to offer tariffs which have no standing charges, but...

12.12.2024 10

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Labour’s planning reforms look like a way of punishing Tory voters

Is the government’s housing policy aimed principally at increasing the stock of homes and making them more affordable or at punishing Tory voters?...

11.12.2024 4

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No, Bovaer won’t give you cancer

Were I given to conspiracy theories I would conclude that there must be a shady animal rights group conducting the online campaign against Bovaer,...

10.12.2024 3

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