Michael Simmons

Britain is being pulled under by debt

21 August 2025 5:42 pm

Britain is slowly drowning in debt. Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that in the…

Is inflation here to stay?

20 August 2025 5:45 pm

Inflation is up again. CPI climbed to 3.8 per cent last month – up from 3.6 per cent in July,…

GDP growth proves the Bank of England’s mistakes

15 August 2025 8:11 pm

Yesterday’s stronger-than-expected GDP growth raises questions for the Bank of England. Second quarter growth came in at 0.3 per cent…

Rachel Reeves must pull Britain from its doom loop

14 August 2025 5:48 pm

Britain’s is growing, albeit sluggishly. Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show the economy grew by…

Don’t forget Nicola Sturgeon’s real legacy

11 August 2025 5:13 pm

Nicola Sturgeon gets an easy ride with the English media. This weekend, with a book to flog and an image…

Has the Bank of England forgotten what its job is?

7 August 2025 10:24 pm

The Bank of England has cut interest rates to 4 per cent. Threadneedle Street’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has just…

Has Rachel Reeves created a £50 billion fiscal black hole?

6 August 2025 10:17 pm

The Chancellor’s black hole is getting bigger and tax rises are coming. That’s the judgement of the National Institute of…

Trump’s tariffs are taming China

2 August 2025 9:00 am

Stockholm This week, the fate of the global economy could have been decided over a Mongolian barbecue in a Stockholm…

The US-China trade war is not over yet

30 July 2025 5:54 am

Stockholm, Sweden The United States and China have concluded two days of trade negotiations in Stockholm without reaching an agreement…

Britain is broke

22 July 2025 5:38 pm

Britain is continuing to chuck billions onto our mounting pile of debt. Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS)…

Why Reeves should sell her bitcoin hoards

20 July 2025 8:41 pm

Deep fried prawn balls, chicken chow mein, crispy shredded beef and a Ponzi scheme could be about to win the…

Broke Britain: how the Bank of England wrecked the economy

19 July 2025 9:00 am

In February 2020, a few weeks before Britain was thrown into lockdown, Sajid Javid resigned as chancellor of the exchequer…

Rachel Reeves’s tax raid is to blame for rising unemployment

17 July 2025 5:51 pm

Unemployment has hit 4.7 per cent – its highest level for four years after the Chancellor’s taxes on business caused…

Rising inflation shows how the Bank of England is failing

16 July 2025 5:39 pm

The rate of inflation climbed to 3.6 per cent in June – up from 3.4 per cent in May. That’s…

No, Rachel Reeves: Britain doesn’t look ‘open for business’

16 July 2025 9:30 am

Rachel Reeves wants Britain to become a shareholder democracy. In her annual Mansion House speech to the City’s bankers, accountants…

Tax rises are inevitable

11 July 2025 6:07 pm

The string of bleak economic updates continues. First we had the dire report by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR)…

Badenoch is right: the benefits bill could cripple Britain

10 July 2025 11:52 pm

‘We are becoming a welfare state with an economy attached,’ said Kemi Badenoch in a speech on sickness benefits today. She’s…

Wes Streeting is right to take on the doctors

9 July 2025 8:21 pm

The public won’t forgive and nor will I, said Health Secretary Wes Streeting of plans by junior doctors to strike…

Britain is heading for economic catastrophe

8 July 2025 8:45 pm

Britain is in trouble. That’s the judgement of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) in their ‘fiscal risks and sustainability’…

I feel sorry for Rachel Reeves

2 July 2025 9:22 pm

I’m starting to feel a tiny bit sorry for the chancellor. Yes, most of the economic and fiscal problems we’re facing…

Will the welfare bill really push 150,000 into poverty?

1 July 2025 6:12 pm

Labour MPs are obviously going to panic when told their votes might plunge just one person into poverty – let…

Britain is facing a doomy economic future

30 June 2025 5:50 pm

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has confirmed the economy grew by 0.7 per cent in the first three months…

Revealed: the dodgy data undermining Universal Credit

27 June 2025 10:00 pm

As Sir Keir Starmer offers concessions to 126 rebels to water down his welfare reform bill, a scandal that undermines…

Britain is racing towards a fresh cost of living crisis

25 June 2025 7:45 pm

The poorest Brits now owe £6.6 billion in unpaid council tax – a record high and up some 85 per…

Britain is paying for Reeves’s non-dom tax disaster

24 June 2025 6:28 pm

Britain will lose 16,500 millionaires this year, taking $90 billion of wealth with them. That’s according to a new report…