U-turns are in the news, and are assumed to be a sign of weakness, an ‘embarrassing climb-down,’ and ‘a humiliating defeat.’

The Food Foundations tells us, via email, that: "The introduction of mandatory reporting by all large food companies, including takeaway chains, on the healthiness of their food sales is a game changer. This

We here, along with the lads at the Centre for Policy Studies, spent a decade insisting that the personal allowance for income tax (and national insurance in our case) must be raised.

The thing that really grips our goat here is that idea that an operating subsidy is being called investment.

In its 2024 manifesto, the Labour Party pledged to add 3,000 new nurseries, attached to existing primary schools.

The charity called on the UK to work with other governments to oppose “extreme inequality”, with private wealth growing eight times faster than the net wealth of governments between 1995 and 2023.

There is a treasure under out feet which, if tapped, could make most of the country richer and less dependent on imported resources.

That’ll larn ‘em, eh? Pass a law which increases the profits of the fossil fuel companies in order to punish the fossil fuel companies for causing climate change.

Margaret Thatcher wanted Britain to become a property-owning democracy, and she succeeded to an extent no-one thought possible when she took office in 1979.

The price of graduates has fallen. To, it appears, less than zero. Or, to be slightly more accurate, to less than the minimum wage that the law, in its majesty, insists any labour must be paid.

In a letter to Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice recently argued that the Bank should stop paying interest on reserves – i.e. the money that financial institutions have parked on the Bank’s balance sheet.

I am fortunate to have lived most of my life during the nuclear peace.