Another Oil Refinery Bites the Dust
7 July 2025
by Ben Pile
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Alarm has set in as Labour grandees and union paymasters push Reeves to bring in a wealth tax to raise spending and plug a yawning £30bn black hole in Government finances, despite millionaires already fleeing the country.
We might've won the Cold War, but Britain's now sliding into soft totalitarianism, warns Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph, as state control, high taxes and strong-armed conformity erode our hard-won freedoms.
This morning's unexpected spike in inflation to 3.5%, up from 2.6% last month, is all on Rachel Reeves and her economically illiterate tax rises and broader economic policies, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
A new Nature paper claims to pin liability for 'climate damages' on oil companies so they can be sued in court. This escalation in the climate wars is scientifically bogus and economically disastrous, says Dr Tilak Doshi.
China's claim to 'climate leadership' is a geopolitical manoeuvre to counter Trump's narrative, not a pledge of emissions cuts, says Dr Tilak Doshi. Expecting China to join the West's economic self-sabotage is delusional.
Rachel Reeves's disastrous mishandling of the thriving economy she inherited from the Tories means the UK is heading for a full-blown financial crash – and nothing can stop it now, says Matthew Lynn.
Economic cluelessness goes hand-in-hand with rampant hypocrisy in the grisly green echo chamber, says Chris Morrison. The jobs destroyed in the private sector have no hope of being balanced in the new fantasy green world.
Why is the UK in constant decline while Singapore thrives? What lessons does the one-time British city-state have for the UK? Prof Peter Coclanis and Dr Tilak Doshi have an idea: its leaders aren't bleeding heart liberals.
A visitor to the UK from Australia is worried, seeing widening social, political and economic fractures that leave the UK in danger of a cultural collapse. Hope is not lost, she says, but it is quickly draining away.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves stood accused of losing control of the economy today as she desperately cut spending further despite record tax rises to cover a £14bn black hole largely of her own making.
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