Instead of nostalgia for industries of the past Andy Burnham should look to the stars October 26, 2026 Britain’s space industry is the definition of good growth in every postcode, but too many start-ups are forced to seek foreign buyers when they want to scale, says James Lockyer Andy Burnham has been desperate to turn back the clock lately. The mood music from the PM has been renationalise, regulate, back to the 1970s [...]
Getting closer to the EU is a sop to Burnham’s socialist backbenchers October 23, 2026 Andy Burnham wants to undo Brexit because he’s given on the supply side reforms Britain needs for growth, says Joseph Dinnage October is always grim. The temperature drops, the rain begins and the darkness sets in. This month is poised to be even drearier than usual. In a week’s time, we’ll have John Healey’s first Budget. Healey [...]
Business needs to speak up in Britain’s battle of ideas October 23, 2026 Politics is about to get more stark and much more consequential. Business leaders need to be pragmatic, dealing with the government of the day. But it strikes me that in this battle of ideas, they need to stand up for what works – especially when the country we all love is going in the wrong direction, [...]
Letting Britain’s arts buildings crumble will cost us all October 23, 2026 Culture is essential civic infrastructure, but Britain is letting its arts buildings fall into disrepair, writes Elaine Bedell.
Landsec’s blocked £.5bn shopping centre plan leaves Lewisham in the worst of all worlds October 22, 2026 Lewisham’s £1.5bn shopping centre redevelopment freeze, caused by a breakdown between Landsec and the Council, has left residents, traders, and the town centre stranded in uncertainty, says Sergiy Lesyk Lewisham shows how a council can lose a £1.5bn scheme and gain nothing. Landsec, the property company that has owned Lewisham Shopping Centre for more than [...]
Approving Jackdaw is just a distraction from Labour’s obsession with net stupid zero October 22, 2026 Labour may have approved the Jackdaw gas field, but it is still set on destroying our industrial base to save the planet. It’s another to engage in unilateral economic disarmament so China can sell us the cars we used to build. We must reverse this madness, licence drilling in the North Sea, and make energy [...]
Ditching a damaging capital gains tax rise doesn’t make Healey a pro-growth Chancellor October 22, 2026 Although the government has ruled out raising Capital Gains Tax in the upcoming budget, Labour’s broader tax and spending policies remain economically damaging, uncompetitive, and fundamentally misguided, says Daniel Herring The government needs to find money for the upcoming Budget. Having ruled out the least damaging and broadest-based tax rises, Labour needs to resort to [...]
Harriet Green: What led me to the City? An infomercial headed ‘Sisters are Doin’ It for Themselves’ October 22, 2026 Harriet Green OBE, former CEO of Thomas Cook and IBM Asia, takes us through her career in Square Mile and Me.
What does the public really think about rejoining the EU? October 22, 2026 It’s pure delusion to conclude that rejoining the European Union would cure our financial woes and the public knows it, says Dr Michael Turner Andy Burnham wants to reopen Pandora’s box. After solemnly promising before the Makerfield by-election that Brexit was settled, the Prime Minister now concludes that all options are on the table as [...]
Our national debt is a crisis but at least we got a good dance track out of it October 22, 2026 Monday 24 November 2008, and MPs are gripped by one of the most consequential parliamentary debates of the past 30 years. As Chancellor, the late Alistair Darling had just told the House that his pre-Budget statement was being “made against a background of economic uncertainty not seen for generations” and that they had gathered in [...]