Carbon Dioxide is Good for the Planet
3 April 2025
How I Blew Grok’s Mind
2 April 2025
by Andy A West
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.
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has been accused of hypocrisy after playing hockey on a private school's AstroTurf hours before suggesting independent institutions didn’t "need" the pitches.
Carol Vorderman has ditched her Welsh seaside apartment after the Labour-run council tripled her council tax, hiking her bill to over £5,000.
Treasury officials are warning that a Labour tax rise on 'non-doms', far from raising more cash, will cost money instead. The Government is on a steep learning curve that punishing taxes don’t work, says Matthew Lynn.
The EU will keep turning a blind eye to Ireland's lucrative Corporation Tax wheeze as long as it keeps taking in the migrants and refugees, says Mike Wells.
The RAC's Head of Policy caused a stir this week when he proposed replacing fuel duty with pay-per-mile road charging. There are many problems with this, says Ben Pile, not least its distinct totalitarian whiff.
In a summary of his excellent new book, Return to Growth, Jon Moynihan argues that the UK's economic growth has been suffocated by a bloated public sector, punitively high taxes and too much red tape.
New analysis suggests Labour's tax on private schools could bring in less than half the expected amount because of the extra cost of adding more students to the state system.
Labour faces accusations of intending to raise council tax on homes with larger gardens by using satellite surveillance to spy on property sizes, should the party come into power.
Angela Rayner is facing fresh police scrutiny over allegations of tax evasion linked to her former council house.
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