On this day: Enron files for bankruptcy December 2, 2025 On This Day in 2001, Enron, once considered America’s most innovative company collapsed, writes Eliot Wilson It’s hard to remember an economic boom now, but the last decade of the 20th century was exactly that for the United States. Annual growth was 3.5 per cent, the jobless total fell until there was nigh on full [...]
Trial by jury is too important to be left to David Lammy December 2, 2025 David Lammy is seeking to solve a shortage of resources in the justice system by fundamentally rewriting the legal and constitutional framework of England and Wales. That’s deeply wrong, argues Eliot Wilson The headline in The Times last week was extraordinary: “Jury trials to be scrapped except for alleged rapists and killers”. A memorandum from [...]
The biggest risk to this government is no longer economic turbulence, but itself December 2, 2025 A Budget meant to project discipline has instead exposed confusion, mistrust and political instability around the Chancellor, eroding confidence in both markets and her own party, says Helen Thomas It is never a good omen when the Chancellor becomes the story rather than the Budget they’ve delivered. What began as a carefully choreographed fiscal event, [...]
AI will transform healthcare, but it won’t necessarily make it fairer December 2, 2025 What if healthcare becomes not a universal right but a personal upgrade? Asks Paul Armstrong The healthcare industry is entering its most radical transformation since the antibiotic era – and possibly its most dangerous. AI is no longer just scanning X-rays or arranging appointments. Robotic systems are beginning to perform surgery with levels of precision [...]
Reeves isn’t ‘underestimated’, she’s doing a bad job and should resign December 1, 2025 Rachel Reeves has no mandate for taking money from taxpayers to hand to benefits claimants and her self-pitying defences are an insult to the people who are paying for her weakness, writes Alys Denby Rachel Reeves’ position has been untenable from the start. Her promises, during the election, that she would “end austerity” (increase public [...]
Rachel Reeves’s Budget is pushing Nick, 30, to breaking point December 1, 2025 Despite his above average income, Nick, 30 is living a below average life. And it's only set to worsen thanks to Chancellor Rachel Reeves's Budget, writes Oliver Dean.
Why is Labour refusing to use its own power? December 1, 2025 A landslide victory in a centralised government gives Labour great political power, yet Keir Starmer seems reluctant to use it, writes John McTernan.
Lady Mayor: Higher taxes will discourage investors at critical time December 1, 2025 Higher taxes on dividends, pension contributions and savings risk discouraging investors exactly when we need them, writes Susan Langley.
Reeves ends Budget week with more unanswered questions than she started with November 29, 2025 It was supposed to be the week that ended months of uncertainty. But Rachel Reeves has finished Budget week with more questions to answer than she started with. Not all of it was bad. Increasing the fiscal headroom was prudent. Cutting back motability spending was sensible. Removing a loophole that allowed private hire firms to [...]
Covid inquiry is a reminder that freedom matters as well as saving lives November 28, 2025 The Covid inquiry continues labouring under the lopsided assumption that the only thing that matters in a pandemic is the number of deaths prevented. There was always an alternative to lockdowns, says Charles Amos Recently the Covid inquiry has stated the government acted too little and too late in introducing lockdown in March 2020 with [...]