Jonty Bloom
14 November 2024
Money alone will not fix the NHS
It’s not only what you spend but how you spend it that matters
Read the full article13 November 2024
MAGA’s useful idiots
Reform and the Tories say a US/UK trade deal would ‘vindicate Brexit’. It would also put Britain last
Read the full article07 November 2024
The end of more for less
Farmers are a short-term risk, but Labour’s biggest task is getting impatient Britain to buy into the power of long-term investment
Read the full article07 November 2024
How badly will Trump’s tariffs hurt Britain?
The president-elect wants to drag the world back to the 1930s with his trade wars
Read the full article06 November 2024
Blame Brexit for the small boats crisis
The EU’s migrant return policy worked for years, and access to a fingerprint database is a very distant second-best
Read the full article02 November 2024
Clarkson and Kirstie are wrong about farmers
There is no economic justification for all farmers passing their estates on to their children tax-free
Read the full article31 October 2024
Two final acts of stupidity from Robert Jenrick
Stirring things up over this summer’s riots is bad, demanding that former colonies doff the cap is arguably even worse
Read the full article30 October 2024
This Budget won’t fix the growth black hole
Rachel Reeves made a start on fixing the Conservatives’ years of waste - but it is nowhere near enough
Read the full article29 October 2024
Welcome to the ‘new Brexit’ wars
Pressure to leave the European Convention on Human Rights won’t stop even if Robert Jenrick loses the Tory leadership election
Read the full article24 October 2024
The tough task facing Westminster’s new pro-EU group
They’ll talk about getting Britain closer to Europe, but will Keir Starmer listen?
Read the full article24 October 2024
The BBC have given Michael Gove a podcast. Why?
The shameless survivor who brought you Brexit doesn’t deserve another platform
Read the full article23 October 2024
Labour’s impossible budget
Whatever Rachel Reeves announces will make her deeply unpopular. But that won’t necessarily mean she’s wrong
Read the full article17 October 2024
How Brexit damaged the City: the truth at last
The loss of jobs has been a disaster and blown a £1bn hole in Britain’s tax revenues
Read the full article14 October 2024
Keir Starmer’s red tape delusion
The Labour prime minister has said the way to kickstart the British economy is to cut red tape. What the hell is he thinking?
Read the full article10 October 2024
This pre-Budget report is a shocker for Rachel Reeves and Britain
The IFS delivers a gloomy verdict that will put pressure on the chancellor for tax rises and spending cuts
Read the full article10 October 2024
The smoking gun in Boris Johnson’s book
His attempts to pin the Brexit blame on David Cameron say everything about this egotistical inadequate
Read the full article08 October 2024
Brexit on the rocks
Leaving the EU has caused huge tensions on Gibraltar. Now the creators of the mess are campaigning against its solution
Read the full article05 October 2024
Sectors wrecked, workers exploited… the Brexit bonuses keep on coming
A new report lays bare the negative effects of leaving the EU on three key sectors
Read the full article02 October 2024
Starmer’s summit for nothing
The PM could have been like Nixon in China, but his Brexit caution appears to have ruled that out
Read the full article25 September 2024
The Tories’ dodgy migrant maths
Claims of ‘proof’ that foreign workers cost Britain more than they put in are nebulous in the extreme
Read the full article21 September 2024
Britain’s loony right have lost the plot
No, we’re not living in a socialist dystopia as the Telegraph’s Simon Heffer claims - and nonsense like this is making the Tories unelectable
Read the full article18 September 2024
John Major’s Brexit intervention
The former Conservative prime minister told Amol Rajan that when it comes to the “ultras” who took Britain out of the EU, he's in an unforgiving mood
Read the full article18 September 2024
Labour’s biggest challenge
UK government debt is set to treble catastrophically in the next 50 years. Can Labour do anything about it?
Read the full article17 September 2024
Brexit is getting worse
A new report suggests the negative effects of leaving the EU are deepening
Read the full article13 September 2024
Dragging the EU into the future
But we won’t be there to reap the benefits of modernisation
Read the full article11 September 2024
Daniel Hannan: deluded, dangerous and in denial
His life’s work has been a catastrophe – and now Hannan’s latest Brexit argument will be music to Putin’s ears
Read the full article10 September 2024
A museum of Brexit horrors
The delusional europhobes want to set up a museum of Brexit. Here are a few ideas to get them going
Read the full article07 September 2024
At last, truth in the Commons over Brexit
Jonathan Reynolds’ reaction to business and trade questions mark an important turning point
Read the full article04 September 2024
Tugendhat would be the least worst Tory leader
… And that’s why he almost certainly has no chance as the Conservatives start voting
Read the full article04 September 2024
The case for land tax
Replacing unfair, outdated levies with taxes based on land value would benefit 77% of us and help the country level up
Read the full article31 August 2024
How Labour could fill the black hole
The same tax rate for earnings and wealth would be a seismic change that raised billions
Read the full article28 August 2024
The madness of snubbing Erasmus+
Keir Starmer’s trip to Germany and France feels empty without rejoining the scheme
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