Don’t ask me if Rishi Sunak has struck the right balance between borrowing lashings more money to keep the economy from total collapse and increasing taxes to pay some of it back in the far distant future. I freely admit that I’ve never begun to understand economics (which is one thing I seem to have in … Read more
Rishi is continuing to dole out largesse like there’s no tomorrow. Yet still it’s not enough for some people. He is pictured above with the Prime Minister on a visit to Teesport yesterday My old mate Ron Todd, who used to run the Transport and General Workers’ Union, would grumble that no matter how good … Read more
In August 1967, Stephen Bayley, a 15-year-old pupil at Quarry Bank in Liverpool, wrote a letter to the school’s most famous pupil, John Lennon. Young Stephen told John, who had left Quarry Bank ten years earlier, that his English teacher was in the habit of playing Beatles records in class, and encouraging the boys to … Read more
Money to pay back the vast costs of Covid-19 has to come from somewhere. Unfortunately for Middle Britain, much of the burden will fall on its shoulders. Indeed, Rishi Sunak‘s coronavirus face mask could double up as a highwayman’s disguise, so adept has he been at forcing the middle classes to stand and deliver. He … Read more
To paraphrase an old joke: An Etonian, a Harrovian and a Wykehamist and are sitting in a bar when a woman walks in. The Etonian says: ‘Fetch her a chair.’ The Harrovian fetches it. The Wykehamist sits in it. Winchester alumnus Rishi Sunak didn’t pull off quite such a dastardly move yesterday. No. He was … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: The figures are frightening… God help us if interest rates go up By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:16 GMT, 3 March 2021 | Updated: 22:17 GMT, 3 March 2021 Never in peacetime has a Chancellor of any political hue lavished sums so generously as Rishi Sunak to preserve jobs and … Read more
ROSS CLARK: Motorists who splashed out on a hybrid car are feeling that they’ve been sold a pig in a poke How ironic that the word ‘hybrid’ is derived from the Latin for the offspring of a wild boar and a tame sow. Because right now many motorists who splashed out on a hybrid car … Read more
It must be an enormous relief for the SNP to have Angus Robertson among its number at this critical time. He has identified the source of the party’s current problems, which include the potential imminent departure of the First Minister. The answer, you may not be shocked to learn, is Unionists. They are behind all … Read more
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Over the past year we’ve had to learn a baffling new language. If you struggle to tell your pandemics from your pangolins, here is a comprehensive A-Z guide to Covid-19.
Almost exactly 21 years ago, I wrote a piece in the Spectator magazine alleging that Roy Greenslade, a prominent and respected columnist for The Guardian newspaper, had strong sympathies for the Irish Republican movement which he had never publicly admitted. This was, I believe, the first time anyone had pointed out Greenslade’s dubious connections. I … Read more