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 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 ...

On departing office in 2010, Labour’s Treasury chief secretary Liam Byrne infamously left a note pointing out that there was no money left. It’s a pity that the incoming coalition government did not ...

A Chancellor’s Spending Review is a chance to set out the Government’s fiscal priorities for the years ahead, and signal which political issues are most important. But there was one giant, gaping hole ...

Tim Gregory is a speaker, broadcaster and senior nuclear chemist at the United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory at Sellafield, Cumbria. His new book, 'Going Nuclear: How the Atom will Save the ...

In 1995, when assisted dying was briefly legalised in the Northern Territories of Australia, Dr Philip Nitschke created a suicide machine named ‘Deliverance’ by linking up his laptop to a syringe of ...

A giant paradox cripples industrial Britain: we are a nation of inventors, and yet manufacturing is in decline. We nurture brilliant engineers, and yet commercialisation too often goes offshore – ...

Last night, Israel launched a audacious series of airstrikes against Iran, code-named Operation Rising Lion, targeting nuclear facilities. Among the targets were the Natanz enrichment facility, ...