Even before the latest Hinkley Point setback, this target looked nigh-on impossible deliver. Analysis has suggested it is right at the edge of what is possible.
Britain’s growing antisemitism problem comes not primarily from extremists of the right or left, but from demographic change.
Despite not being from Southampton, Yankson claims to have a third of a century’s worth of experience there, having first visited when a student at Durham University.
Only 34 per cent of Palestinians want a two-state solution. We may recognise Palestine, but the vast majority of its residents will never recognise Israel. The cycle of violence will continue.
International relations haven’t moved on from Thucydides. The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they want.
Downing Street and the White House would have hoped one strike would have been enough to send the Houthis an unambiguous message. That clearly hasn’t worked.
Still, the argument that tax cuts themselves lead to growth is one that the Conservative Party hasn’t been used to making since the days of David Cameron Mark One.
Should we enforce secularism, with religious differences subsumed in a single ethos? Or should we make allowances for faith’s demands, potentially undermining community cohesion and the comfort of others?
Britain Remade suggests we now rank 15th out of 16 countries by construction cost per megawatt-hour of generating capacity. The causes are depressingly familiar.
Fraser won on the second ballot, having given attendees a “clear understanding of how she thinks”.
Unlike France or Italy, we do not reserve specific constituencies for expatriates. Even at the peak of registrations, in 2017, only 20 percent of those eligible chose to register. Unless that figure now radically changes, expats are unlikely to play an outsized role this year.
This week, the Office for National Statistics informed us that the economy grew by 0.3 per cent in November. Not only was that above the 0.2 per cent expansion expected by analysts, but it was a recovery from a 0.3 per cent contraction the previous month.
Is teacher-supervised brushing for three to five-year-olds any more absurd than banning anyone born after 2009 from ever legally buying a cigarette?
Fifty years on from Edward Heath, another Conservative Prime Minister faces their premiership being brought even lower by a Middle Eastern energy shock.
One attendee described the selection meeting to ConservativeHome as having had a “very healthy turnout”, with a “great mix of people”, and a “warm and receptive” atmosphere.