Britain is heading the same way. The draft Ticket Tout Ban Bill announced in May’s King’s Speech would make it illegal to ...

Governments need to show voters light at the end of what has been a long, dark tunnel. That is why, around the world, they ...

Trent in 1990 with £50,000. By the time Pepco sold it, Poundland had 825 shops and 16,000 staff. In June 2025 Pepco, its ...

In a more uncertain world, the UK needs to be agile and realistic about its own interests. The Commonwealth, sensible as it ...

Emma Reynolds, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, is one of the more sensible Labour MPs. She resigned as a front bencher when Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader and is firmly in the moderate wing of ...

These policies have meant that there are fewer doctors at work in the NHS than there need to be. There is no financial ...

So, if politicians get to run buffer stocks with our money – get to speculate in the commodity markets with our money – then they’re going to do so in favour of politicians’ interests. This is not ...

Chancellor John Healey said his Budget was ‘backing the enterprise of British business to unleash innovation and growth in ...

As the OBR notes, the near-term outlook is uncertain, being contingent upon the Iran war and its impact on energy prices, ...

From the sick man of Europe, we became one of the most prosperous. Growth reached unprecedented heights, and Britain became ...

New research finds that UK data regulation is costing British tech businesses an estimated £5.3 billion a year Over half of ...