Keir Starmer was at the official VE Day service at Westminster Abbey yesterday. Someone in the clergy there, I hope deliberately, gave him the job
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The Bank of England is determined to deliver a UK banking crisis
Yesterday, I noted the reckless relaxation of mortgage lending rules by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, which are bound to prejudice some borrowers and increase
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Are the UK’s universities failing financially?
Forty per cent of the UK’s universities are now running deficits. Next year, it is expected that 75% will. How long is it before some
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The US trade deal is a bad deal, and it has the potential to get worse
This statement was issued by the White House yesterday on the UK/US trade deal, about which a great deal of uncertainty remains: President Trump: “The
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200,000
Sometime during last night our YouTube channel secured its 200,000th subscriber: It has taken just four months for the channel to double its subscriber numbers.
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Labour is destroying the NHS
As The Guardian reports: Hospitals in England are cutting staff, closing services and planning to ration care in order to make “eye-watering” savings demanded by
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Too little, too late: that’s the Bank of England on interest rates
As the Bank of England has reported: The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) sets monetary policy to meet the 2% inflation target, and in a way
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Tank v Tesla
The Trump trade deal
I am live on air on BBC Radio 5 as I write this, talking about Trump’s potential trade deal with the UK. These were my
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