News Round-Up
26 April 2025
by Toby Young
Labour's "grocery tax" is set to punish British families, slapping an extra £56 onto their shopping bills and driving up inflation, all in the name of Net Zero.
The local election results are as terrible for the Conservatives as feared and thanks to Reform they would have been lucky to have had only a 1997-style wipeout, says veteran pollster John Curtice.
Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer has criticised the proposed £15 increase in the BBC licence fee as "excessive" amid a cost of living crisis and growing public discontent, with a rising demand for a pay-per-content model.
People are so fed up with ‘broken Britain’ that nearly half of them want to emigrate to get a better life, new research claims today.
Gen Z are turning against woke culture due to a mixture of economic reality, and the fact that it has descended into empty self-parody, according to Panda La Terriere in the Spectator. Let's hope she's right.
Thanks to the omni-crisis in the energy sector, the price cap will rise to £6,522 by next April, according to Auxilione. That’s up from the £5,3000 predicted yesterday by Cornwall Insight. Time to lift the ban on Fracking?
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