Why we should fear a Burnham bust
Andy Burnham’s summer holiday is officially over. Even as he tried to project sunny optimism yesterday in his first address to the House of Commons as PM, the economic storm…
Andy Burnham’s summer holiday is officially over. Even as he tried to project sunny optimism yesterday in his first address to the House of Commons as PM, the economic storm…
Are you familiar with Natural England? Don’t worry if you’re not. You were never asked to be. Nobody has ever stood on your doorstep asking you to vote for it.…
New EU regulations on packaging materials have come into force this month, and they have accidentally broken the Single Market. Laws designed to regulate the content of packaging to increase…
The phrases ‘housing crisis’ and ‘housing shortage’ do not do justice to the scale of the disaster ahead in Britain. To gain an idea of just how severe the problem…
Bad news for all the people queuing up to open a betting shop in Burnham’s Britain. The prime minister is going to give local authorities more power to stop bookies…
It’s a tale as old as time – when Britain’s economy tanks, politicians look for a villain to blame. On this occasion, new chancellor John Healey has chosen supermarkets and…
Of all the self-help videos that sneak into my algorithm, the ‘Sunday Reset’ is my favourite. In a kind of tribute to Marie Kondo, a Japanese ‘organising consultant’, glamorous influencers…
The US Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday, leaving rates unchanged for the fifth time since December despite Donald Trump’s renewed calls to lower rates. Cooler inflation data…
It was during the Great Depression that then US president Franklin D Roosevelt coined the phrase the ‘first 100 days’. In a national radio address three months into his presidency…
Socialism is au courant in America today, though in its 21st-century form, it is less a rebellion of the proletariat than a by-product of the capitalist elite. Through its continued…