The government has set out a plan to extend the reach of the road charging system beyond the borders of the United Kingdom, arguing that the transition to electric vehicles
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The government’s bid to shield under sixteen year olds from the perceived dangers of social media has quickly become a defining contest for Britain’s technology sector. Ministers present the policy
By mid-morning in London the numbers told a story that diplomats had failed to contain. Brent crude, the benchmark that does duty as the world’s shorthand for energy risk, had
The Office for Budget Responsibility has spent the past decade trying to persuade politicians to look beyond the next fiscal event, and beyond the next election, to the quieter mathematics
The Office for Budget Responsibility has acquired an unshowy talent for delivering bad news in a voice so measured that Westminster can pretend, for a while, not to hear it.
Only months ago, the oil market was braced for a familiar kind of panic: a geopolitical shock that chokes supply, spikes prices and forces governments into hurried, expensive choices. The
In the spring of 2020, with hospitals bracing for a virus that was still poorly understood and supply chains collapsing in real time, Whitehall found itself in a dilemma that
In the week of American Independence Day, the language of national destiny was repurposed for personal finance. From the Oval Office on July 4, President Trump formally launched a new
On a first encounter, Farnworth Green presents the sort of municipal optimism that looks persuasive from a train window. Step off at the bus station and you are met by
The story of “Stargate UK” was sold as a landmark in modern industrial strategy: a transatlantic partnership, a flagship datacentre, and a signal that Britain would not merely consume the
There are few things more British than a pub door unlocked against the sensible advice of bedtime. The nation has built an entire folklore around last orders, closing time and
London has a habit of absorbing contradictions and carrying on regardless. It sells itself as a world city where talent is meant to be welcomed, capital is meant to find
The case for shifting power out of Westminster is almost always made in the language of fairness, but it is increasingly argued in the language of necessity. Britain’s economy has
Andy Burnham arrives in Downing Street confronted not by the luxury of political momentum but by the discipline of arithmetic. Before any government can define itself by reform, renewal or
Governments across the world are confronting a renewed danger in bond markets, with the Bank for International Settlements warning that heavy public borrowing, leveraged hedge fund activity and fragile market
In the wake of Sir Keir Starmer’s resignation, a profound transformation looms over the UK’s political landscape. The anticipated ascent of Andy Burnham, long regarded as a notable figure within
