Biden’s back-firing rhetoric on China’s economic sluggishness…
In an astonishing display of rhetorical hubris, US President Joe Biden recently unleashed a fusillade of criticism aimed squarely at China,...
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Starmer’s flip-flopping shows Labour has no plan for the economy
With every week that passes, Sir Keir Starmer appears more and more determined to make the flip-flopper label stick. We might...
Mindlessly printing money has ruined Britain’s economy and politics. We must return to sanity
We should be wary of catch-all solutions. Campaigners who claim that every trouble would be addressed by their particular remedy...
Only a brutal Darwinian process can reset Britain’s economy
The scale and speed of today’s rise in interest rates looks set to deliver precisely that. Past recessions have admittedly...
It’s time we stopped talking down the UK economy
Yet all things are relative, and looking at the sweep of major advanced economies, never mind the challenger autocracies that...
A California-friendly prime minister is the last thing Britain needs
But the big semiconductor fabrication plants, or fabs, are distant memories. Intel closed its last Californian fab in 2008. The...
Don’t be fooled – America’s finances are just as perilous as Britain’s
There is every chance that whoever wins the next presidential election will take a similar attitude to the budget deficit...
they won’t get a state pension
When Mr Asquith designed the old age pension, which began on 1 January 1909, it was five shillings a week...
HS2 has become a symbol of politicians’ carelessness with taxpayers’ money
SIR – You report (August 6) on Sir Keir Starmer’s support for HS2. Our politicians appear to live in a fantasy...
Making INR a designated currency, a major advantage for Indians visiting Sri Lanka – Nalin Welgama
Making the Indian rupee (INR) a designated foreign currency will not only facilitate trade settlement between the two countries in...
