Nobody can predict how long the current Iran oil price spike will last but one thing is certain: future global uncertainty.
This is not an argument against trade, nor a call for isolation. Open markets matter. But they only function when rules are enforced. Infrastructure, public health, and the exposure of young people to addictive products are not politically neutral.
Britain has long known the difference between right and wrong and support for Ukraine continues to demonstrate that. The Trafalgar Square tree embodies this. It deserves respect, not ridicule. If you want American Christmas trees move to America.
Given LUKE’s global mandate, if appetite remains for a more domestically focused vehicle, LUKE could have a smaller sister fund, as Norway does. The Local Economic Investment Authority (LEIA) now that really would bring some ‘force’ to our economy
Preventing unseaworthy ships from passing through the Baltic with polluting cargo does not prevent Russia from navigating them. It just requires them to use acceptably safe ships to do so. But there’s a reason they have a shadow fleet that aren’t safe.
In Norway politics is about momentum. Once voters began fleeing the Norwegian Conservatives, more followed.
Total offshore revenues exceed £300 billion but might have been even higher had investors enjoyed more certainty.
While I was away, the UK seemed to tie itself in knots over men of fighting age crossing the sea to settle in Britain. I don’t think this French deal is going to fix things, more than window dressing for a comms strategy that has strayed into, frankly, outright lying.
Cousin marriage is not a private matter when it affects entire communities and generations. Those calling for reform are not outsiders meddling in someone else’s culture but often members of the very same communities, tired of watching suffering mislabelled as heritage.
The government wishes to take a “whole of society approach” to the defence of the realm. A laudable ambition. But will the whole of society support it?
Reliance on imports and integration into the European gas market means we will now always be price takers. That is a problem in this tough new world. It means energy – which is really much more about politics than market forces – can be used to hit us.
This is not a dispute on policy but on priorities, and I suspect Thatcher herself might tell you that the contemporary Conservative version of the ancient Japanese rice festival is emblematic of the wrong one.
Why is it that the party believes British children should be taxed whilst foreign students at British universities are exempt?
Taking together the costs that could plausibly be reversed by the state, Onward calculates that 30 per cent of a typical bill is due to policy choices. The Government should be rolling back these imposed costs, starting with the carbon taxes on gas power.