Analysis: A wind brewing over energy subsidies January 26, 2023 Windfall taxes, state aid rules, subsidies in the US. Comment and Features editor Sascha O’Sullivan looks at the brewing storm over incentives for climate firms in the UK – and holding onto the ones we have. Of all the arguments during Brexit, state aid was hardly the one to get the most airtime. But it’s [...]
PMQs sketch: Nadhim Zahawi? Don’t know the guy January 25, 2023 Conservative party chairman Nadhim Zahawi is under investigation for failing to pay his taxes, a woman was murdered after an offender was mistakenly allowed to "walk free", and Rishi Sunak is still short (but only a bit shorter than Keir Starmer), Sascha O'Sullivan debriefs on Prime Minister's Questions.
We’re instinctively afraid of Big Things, but we don’t need to break up the Home Office January 25, 2023 Whether its Big Government or Big Tech, we have an innate fear of anything too large or unwieldy. But breaking things up - or making them smaller - won't in itself fix problems in the system, writes Sascha O'Sullivan.
Analysis: Britain’s rail firms on a delayed ride to nationalisation January 20, 2023 As if the rail operators weren’t in enough hot water, with nurses having to get seven buses to work and poor Rishi Sunak forced to hop on a private plane because the trains are so unreliable. Yesterday, they were given a talking to by the rail regulator for fudging the numbers, with the TransPennine Express, [...]
PMQs: Keir Starmer goes for our hearts – through the NHS January 18, 2023 As nurses go on strike in England, Keir Starmer has used ambulance wait times as an emotional bit of rhetoric to drag Rishi Sunak's attempt to be a "good manager" of Britain, writes Sascha O'Sullivan
Big Business needs to check its screen time and stop throwing money at trying to go viral January 18, 2023 A viral TikTok about Negroni Sbagliatos pushed up Lidl's prosecco sales, but the truly valuable viral videos are luck of the draw.
More abuse cases could come out of the Met after shocking Carrick crimes, Home Secretary warns January 17, 2023 More shocking cases of abuse and sexual violence could come to light in the Metropolitan Police, the Home Secretary said this afternoon. Suella Braverman told the House of Commons it was “imperative” the police force double down on their vetting processes after Met Police Officer David Carrick pleaded guilty to 49 offences across two decades, [...]
Analysis: Sunak is giving the police exactly what they want with protest laws January 16, 2023 Just Stop Oil, Extinction Rebellion and other protest groups will face even tougher criminal sanctions under the Public Order Bill. But our ability to demonstrate could come under the hammer too, Sascha O'Sullivan writes.
Analysis: A growing economy and falling energy bills, the stars could be aligning January 13, 2023 Britain might narrowly avoid a technical recession, energy prices could be falling , and mortgage borrowing costs might not be as crippling. Sascha O’Sullivan looks at the good news.
Analysis: NHS strikes are about morale, stupid January 12, 2023 As Britain braces for more strikes in the NHS later this month and ministers are locked in tense pay negotiations, 14 health unions have pulled out of independent pay review process.