Reeves’ straitjacket: Why Britain’s spending problem is political, not economic June 11, 2025 Public spending should not be held hostage to the OBR’s latest spreadsheet projections, as if the future of school funding hangs on whether GDP is revised up by 0.1 per cent. Our leaders should acknowledge that fiscal headroom is a political choice, says Dimitri Zenghelis The UK government is right to focus on investment and [...]
The Debate: Should the British Museum return the Elgin Marbles to Greece? June 11, 2025 As rumours about talks to repatriate the Elgin Marbles to Greece resurface, we get two experts to make the case for and against their return.
Reeves will aim for optimism but reality paints a different picture June 11, 2025 Sky’s Sophy Ridge is a thoughtful and formidable interviewer, as Treasury Minister James Murray discovered on Monday evening. The Labour MP, who seems a decent sort of chap, was doing his best to defend his government’s screeching and humiliating u-turn on cuts to winter fuel payments, claiming – in the words of the Prime Minister [...]
L&G developer: Londoners don’t want cookie-cutter high streets June 11, 2025 Londoners don't want cookie-cutter high streets. Indie retail is the key to urban regeneration, writes L&G head of place Denz Ibrahim.
I’ve dealt with gangsters and petrol bombs, but Nimbys are a bigger threat to nightlife June 11, 2025 As founder of the world’s biggest nightclub and a festival for 80,000 punters, Manchester’s night time economy advisor Sacha Lord has dealt with guns and petrol bombs. But he says the biggest threat he’s encountered is Nimbys trying to shut down festivals like Brockwell Live What qualifies me to write about Nimbys being nightlife’s biggest [...]
Kemi Badenoch is still the best the Tories have got June 11, 2025 Kemi Badenoch’s listless leadership is still better than a divisive alternative like Robert Jenrick or James Cleverly, says Will Cooling It’s just over a year since Nigel Farage re-entered frontline politics. What started as an inevitable defeat for the Conservative party in Clacton has become an existential rout. After they slumped to their worst election [...]
Farage has a point, the UK should stop subsidising Scotland June 11, 2025 It may have lost him the byelection, but Nigel Farage has a point about Scottish spending, writes Paul Ormerod.
Spending Review is a chance to escape managed decline – will Reeves take it? June 11, 2025 Instead of repeating the same lines we’ve heard at every Spending Review since the financial crash, Rachel Reeves should challenge fundamental assumptions about the role of the state, says Joe Hill Today the Chancellor will announce her first full Spending Review – allocating government budgets over the next three years. It’s a defining moment for [...]
Worrying jobs figures show Labour’s Britain is heading for stagflation June 11, 2025 Staggering rises in unemployment are a result of government polices that prevent businesses creating new jobs, and will ultimately condemn Britain’s economy to low growth and high inflation, says Matthew Elliott Today’s employment figures from the ONS must serve as a wake-up call to the government that their economic agenda is running adrift. We have [...]
London Tech Week day 2: Tech diplomacy in action June 10, 2025 Day 2 of London Tech Week made it clear our global influence grows through emerging markets, writes Russ Shaw.