Jonty Bloom
30 August 2025
Donald Trump, grifter-in-chief
Questionable foreign deals, crypto gambles and putting the squeeze on media opponents have seen Donald Trump make $3.4 billion from the presidency. And he’s not finished yet
Read the full article27 August 2025
This is the moment Britain went wrong (and it’s not Brexit)
The financial crisis left Britain weaker, poorer and more vulnerable to liars - and we’ve never recovered
Read the full article22 August 2025
Will Aldi and Lidl win the UK supermarket wars?
The German discount retailers are piling pressure on Asda and Morrisons. But they will find Tesco and Sainsbury tougher to beat
Read the full article20 August 2025
Is Tesla doomed?
Elon Musk’s DOGE tried to cut wasteful US government spending, but his car company would benefit from the same plan. First target: his own pay packet
Read the full article13 August 2025
Inheritance tax: Rachel Reeves’s political cowardice
There is one obvious way to avoid spending cuts and tax rises - but Labour lacks the guts to try it
Read the full article08 August 2025
The lie that could finish Trump
The president’s eagerness to distort economic facts is a sure-fire way to follow Greece and Argentina into crisis
Read the full article05 August 2025
Britain hates Brexit. When will our leaders admit it?
A new poll shows the tide has turned. But Keir Starmer and others, paralysed by old fears, aren't listening
Read the full article04 August 2025
Have Trump’s tariffs shot the Celtic tiger?
After decades of benefiting from investment, Dublin now finds itself stranded - with plenty of problems and few friends - in a dangerous new world
Read the full article29 July 2025
The EU was right to let Trump start a trade war with himself
The president thinks tariffs make America stronger. The EU knows better - and walked away from a fight not worth having
Read the full article25 July 2025
We need 50 India trade deals to make up for Brexit
The Brexiteers’ dream trade deal is finally done - but government hype doesn't match the facts
Read the full article23 July 2025
Nigel Farage, judge dreadful
Nigel Farage’s Trumpian ‘crackdown on crime’ is farcical, unworkable… and deeply, deeply dangerous
Read the full article22 July 2025
Feargal Sharkey is right. The water shake-up is a drop in the ocean
Nationalisation is the way out of this crisis - but politicians aren’t brave enough to do it
Read the full article19 July 2025
We are becoming more European
A new report shows that Britain is aligning itself with more European rules and standards – but there are two exceptions
Read the full article17 July 2025
Trump versus the US economy
The president wants to fire the head of the US central bank. If he does manage to sack Jay Powell, the result could be disastrous
Read the full article12 July 2025
Why the hard left’s economic plans still don’t work
In the words of the IFS: “No country has successfully introduced a wealth tax." Try telling that to Labour’s left
Read the full article09 July 2025
Do you find this photo boring?
Of course you do – and that’s leading us towards quite a serious economic misunderstanding
Read the full article05 July 2025
Is Meloni now leaning to the left?
Like right wingers everywhere, the Italian government hates immigrants - it also can’t carry on without them. Which means only one thing
Read the full article04 July 2025
Labour’s first year in office: nowhere near good enough
The economy was in a mess when they came into office. But they have moved too slowly, and avoided the biggest questions of all
Read the full article02 July 2025
The car-crash cost of Farageonomics
The Reform Party has finally come up with some policies – and they would wreck the UK’s fragile economy
Read the full article24 June 2025
Our rivals’ tanks are parked on our lawn
Labour's new industrial strategy is a big step forward. But will it stick?
Read the full article23 June 2025
Nine years on, the huge true cost of Brexit is revealed
A new paper says leaving the EU is costing everyone in the UK £4,000 a year
Read the full article23 June 2025
The buck stops here: will Trump kill the dollar?
The European Central Bank’s president believes the euro may replace it as the world’s leading currency
Read the full article19 June 2025
Will war in Iran spike global fuel costs?
The world can’t afford a repeat of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But this new conflict might doesn’t look like having the same economic impact
Read the full article19 June 2025
No, the Brexit reset won’t kill smoky bacon crisps
A Daily Telegraph non-story about snacks says it all about the lunacy of the British right
Read the full article18 June 2025
Why do the Brexit betrayed still believe in Farage?
Nine years on, Leave’s most enthusiastic voters have suffered the most. Yet they’re still backing the man who sold them the snake oil in the first place
Read the full article16 June 2025
The one simple reason that Germany works better than Britain
Yes, its economy needs a reboot, but the country feels less tatty and troubled. Why?
Read the full article14 June 2025
The house that Thatcher broke
Labour are trying to fix Britain’s housing crisis. But they can’t expect any credit for it
Read the full article11 June 2025
Everything you know about inflation is wrong
The hammer of high interest rates is no longer the way to deal with pressure on prices
Read the full article05 June 2025
Reset Britain is still failing, only slower
Keir Starmer’s new deal with the EU was welcome, but it’s only a start. If we want to improve the UK’s place in the world, we need to go much further
Read the full article30 May 2025
When Ireland and Luxembourg saved Britain from Liz Truss
The governor of the Bank of England has just given an eye-watering speech about Britain’s economic idiocy
Read the full article27 May 2025
Is the UK doomed?
A brutal UK economy report makes it clear: the reset is not enough in the face of deeply troubling data on a trade meltdown
Read the full article21 May 2025
Nigel Farage, the Macavity of Brexit
Reform’s leader went on holiday as MPs debated the UK-EU reset deal. It wasn’t a gaffe – it was a ruse to avoid scrutiny
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