Editorial: A Tory tax raid means Boris mustn’t break his promises again September 7, 2021 “You can’t fix the Covid backlog without giving the NHS the money it needs, you can’t fix the NHS without fixing social care, you can’t fix social care without removing the fear of losing everything to pay for social care and you can’t fix health and social care without long term reform.” This is the [...]
While the lunatic fringe of Extinction Rebellion wages war on itself, the City does the green heavy lifting September 1, 2021 To Extinction Rebellion’s list of enemies – of whom there are now so very many – we can now add the giant panda. You might have thought that the endangered bamboo-bothering bear was an example of the dangers of environmental change. After all, there’s no question that human behaviour has led, in part, to their [...]
Editorial: America First vs Global Britain August 18, 2021 On Tuesday night Joe Biden shirked the blame from the chaotic withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. The speed of the Taliban’s takeover was unexpected, the President said – a sole admission of any miscalculation. Biden took the reins of a Trump-era decision and mangled it into a foreign policy catastrophe for the US and [...]