What’s the Point of the Latest Ukraine Escalation?
23 November 2024
by Eugyppius
The Emperor’s New Ad
22 November 2024
David Turver looks at the energy horrors in Labour's Budget, including 22% more cash for Ed Miliband's Net Zero Department to waste on green energy unicorns and billions more in renewable subsidies.
Rachel Reeves has been slammed for "destroying the family farm" by imposing inheritance tax on agricultural land, forcing grieving families to sell up to pay the huge bill.
Government borrowing costs surged to their highest level in nearly a year after the largest tax raising Budget in history as the OBR said that workers will shoulder 80% of the National Insurance rise.
Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves, who, it emerged this week, has hung a picture of Communist Party founder Ellen Wilkinson above her desk, has delivered her budget. Is it one that her heroine would be proud of?
Keir Starmer has suffered the biggest fall in approval rating after winning an election of any Prime Minister in the modern era – plummeting 49 points from plus-11 to minus-38 – a poll has shown.
Landlords in Britain have hit back at Keir Starmer, branding him "insulting" and "out of touch", after he suggested they do not count as "working people" and hence are fair game for tax hikes ahead of the Budget.
Yesterday's budget added £1.4 billion to energy bills owing to its massive increase in subsidies for renewables, including £800m for offshore wind. If wind power is so cheap, why does it need so much subsidy?
Jeremy Hunt told the Commons that "the NHS is, rightly, the biggest reason most of us are proud to be British". What extraordinary nonsense, says James Bartholomew. It is our national shame.
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