Reeves is going to hike taxes – and that will only make our crisis worse
Daniel Hannan
“The impact of excessive taxation and spending on growth cannot be disguised. We are eating the seed corn; to snatch at immediate revenue, we are reducing future income.”
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Economic realities not fantasy have come home to roost, not least for Farage
Malcolm Cupis
“Those 2024 promises were not made from an informed position and Reform is now struggling to face economic realities whilst maintaining the position that led to such a rapid rise in support and gave voters the sense that they were something different from the uniparty.”
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When it comes to Conservatives and cultural coherence what exactly holds Britain together?
David Willetts
“If there is an appeal which crosses religion and cultures it is caring for one’s children and wanting to see them better off and flourishing more than us. An appeal to that would break down barriers rather than building them up.”
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“It was just seventeen, you know what I mean…” so praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Giles Dilnot
“Labour, and actually Reform, are a ‘target rich environment’. Start firing a relentless barrage. You don’t have to promote or reference them to hurt them. They’d give you no quarter, at all. They haven’t. According to their spin teams we are already dead.”
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How an empty reservoir exposes Britain’s managed decline
James Wright
“Government by ‘good vibes’ creates what might be called a Samaritan’s Dilemma of the State: endless acts of well-intentioned protection that cumulatively trap the very people and businesses they were meant to help.”
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Lammy’s blatant disrespect to the Commons reflects its modern status – a television set
Henry Hill
“The most important thing for the Justice Secretary was not the Commons, or the Speaker, or any other formal part of the institution – it was the lenses, and the audience waiting behind them. The necessity of a statement came second to the optics of giving it.”
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Starmer the Establishment man has no idea how to see off an insurgent like Polanski
Andrew Gimson
“There are a lot of angry Momentum types out there who are ready to support a British version of Mamdani.”
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The Chancellor needs to be bold, be brave and do something she knows she should but won’t
Reem Ibrahim
“The only way out of this fiscal doomloop is to be bold. Be brave. We must drastically slash the size of the state.”
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Stamp duty is a bad tax. In fact, it is the worst tax on our books
Joanna Marchong
“Older couples delay downsizing because they cannot justify the cost, while younger families cannot move up. Fewer homes come to market, so prices remain high and supply tight. Britain’s housing market has become a game of musical chairs with the music turned off.”
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Can Ukraine escape Russia’s Pokrovsk meat grinder?
Garvan Walshe
“Neither side has been able to effect a decisive breakthrough in the land war, not least because neither is able to establish air superiority or deny their enemy the ability to supply their forces except at the smallest scale.”
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