The country is living beyond its means. The budget deficit is high and national debt is set to rise significantly. That’s the ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is short on options. She seems unlikely to meet her fiscal rules unless something changes, and with ...

For some years, this did not matter. Labour benefited from a favourable inheritance, and much of the public wanted Blair to ...

Norman Tebbit, one of the greatest prime ministers we never had, has died at the age of 94.  An MP from 1970 until 1992, for many people, Norman Tebbit will be remembered – for good or ill – as the ...

Last week, NHS GPs began prescribing Mounjaro for weight loss for the first time. But for many people reaching out to their doctor, the response is likely to be disappointing – the NHS has made it ...

In politics, as in life, good intentions aren’t enough – it is outcomes that matter. While Labour’s goal of building 1.5 million new homes and improving Britain’s infrastructure is commendable, their ...

Last month, Friedrich Merz was sworn in at the head of a new government in Germany, promising a new era of lower taxes, higher growth and tougher migration policy. In many respects, this is standard ...

Zohran Mamdani, the person who defeated Cuomo in the primaries and is now seen as a mayoral contender for New York – the beating heart of capitalism – recently declared in an interview: ‘I don’t think ...

A group of us were trying to make sense of Donald Trump and discussing leadership and weakness. Why was Margaret Thatcher so great? I offered an answer. Uniquely among modern peacetime leaders, ...

British businesses are under siege. Not from rivals or regulators, but from American hedge funds and their proxies. There is something profoundly flawed with the UK’s class action system: it allows ...

Britain’s war on tobacco is increasingly being waged in the wrong theatre. As the Government ramps up taxes, advertising bans and generational smoking restrictions, it is losing sight of the basic ...

Compare for a moment the National Health Service to a theoretical, dysfunctional state-run bistro. It has been poorly managed and undermanaged for years. The kitchen equipment is outdated and ...