EconomySir Keir Starmer is about to discover just how lucky he really isJune 26, 202416These extra costs help explain why the tax burden has risen to record peacetime levels even as public services are...
EconomyBritain’s paltry savings are in Labour’s crosshairsJune 25, 202413It’s one thing to limit the extent of tax relief on pension contributions, but it is quite another for the...
EconomyWhisper it, but Labour is about to inherit a rallying economyJune 8, 202429The long hiatus in business investment seen since the vote for Brexit may finally have run its course. Years of...
EconomyThe coming financial storm that governments are powerless to fightJune 2, 202426Since the banking system went belly up in the financial crisis of 2008-10, non-bank forms of finance have ballooned, and...
EconomyLabour’s new business backers should be careful what they wish forMay 29, 202418Similar shortsightedness has instructed the taxation of North Sea oil and gas, where what began as a windfall tax has...
BankingUnrepentant Bank of England refuses to learn from its failuresMay 14, 202439Yet if it had so little impact, why did both Switzerland and Japan, which were subjected to the same external...
EconomyThe EU may have built Poland – but Brexit did not break BritainMay 4, 202444If we instead take purchasing power parity as the measure, which attempts to adjust for the fact that the cost...
BankingIll-discipline in the EU ranks could tear the euro apartApril 23, 202421Yet nearly half of EU members breach at least one, or as in the case of France and Italy, both...
EconomyBritain on the edge as memories of Truss refuse to fadeApril 21, 202440Yet the patient is not responding. If the IMF were sitting in judgment it would have found the Government to...
EconomyNet zero Britain is already hopelessly hooked on ChinaApril 6, 202433No surprise, then, that the EU should be looking closely at following the US into imposing swingeing import tariffs and...