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    UK reports biggest drop in new car sales since Second World War

    06 Jan 2021

    British new car sales fell nearly 30% last year in their biggest annual drop since 1943 as lockdowns to curb the spread of the coronavirus hit the sector, an industry body said on Wednesday. Demand stood at 1.63 million cars in 2020,

    This is why a final say is necessary before an election in UK

    29 Oct 2019

    Boris Johnson’s proposal to hold an election on December 12 seems set to be defeated in the Commons. But Jo Swinson’s and Nicola Sturgeon’s plan to hold one on December 9 may have legs

    UK will need to reinvent to stay relevant globally

    22 Jan 2021

    Post-Brexit strategy poses great challenges for the UK; to redefine its internal and external policies besides handling the worsening pandemic situation calls for pragmatism in a large dose. Now that the UK has left the European Union (EU) and has

    Of British royalty and Markle’s travails

    31 Oct 2019

    Why would anyone marry into the British royal family? Especially an outspoken, biracial, successful American actress such as Meghan Markle, now Duchess of Sussex? The arc is so painfully familiar:

    It’s more likely to be a climate election than a Brexit ballot

    31 Oct 2019

    The headlines on Wednesday were all depressingly predictable: Grinches stealing Christmas, turkeys being stuffed or voting for Christmas. But there was one that I profoundly

    Global debt hits record $307 trillion despite rising interest rates, says IIF

    20 Sep 2023

    Global debt hit a record $307 trillion in the second quarter of the year despite rising interest rates curbing bank credit, with markets such as the United States and Japan driving the rise, the Institute of International Finance (IIF) said on Tuesday. The financial services trade group said in a report that global debt in

    UK politics: Another false dawn for the Liberal Democrats

    20 Jun 2021

    Erm, I think I’ve been here before. A dramatic, record-breaking Liberal Democrat win in a by-election? Nothing new. True, we’ve not seen one for some time now, but even earthquakes have precedents. Like those American cicadas that emerge

    Matt Hancock is the economy’s best friend

    24 Jan 2021

    The bonfire of good ideas lit by Boris Johnson’s government just keeps on getting fuelled. The latest to be thrown on the flames: a leaked Department of Health paper suggesting everyone testing positive for coronavirus in England be paid £500 to help

    Starmer risks Labour debating on most difficult subjects

    24 Jan 2021

    If you want to know how much trouble Keir Starmer is in, look at the four subjects he has chosen to debate in the opposition’s time in the House of Commons. Last Monday, it was universal credit and free school meals; this Monday it will be council tax

    British politics: How did Prime Minister Boris Johnson become the defender of working-class culture?

    21 Jun 2021

    Nothing could better illustrate the Great Class Inversion in British politics than a book to be published next month by David Skelton, called The New Snobbery. Skelton is a Conservative polemicist from Consett, County Durham, who used

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