A government takeover of Thames Water would be an outrage
The new government’s hand is strong enough to resist nationalisation, which would stick over £18bn of debt onto the taxpayer.
Sunak goes easy on Starmer during his first PMQs as leader
Much of the dialogue between the PM and Tory leader was rooted in agreement.
Tory leadership race officially begins, as James Cleverly joins contest
The shadow home secretary is the first Conservative to throw his hat in the ring, as nominations for the first round of the contest opened today.
Starmer under pressure over two child cap
Keir Starmer is punishing Labour rebels for supporting a policy that was one of his own leadership pledges.
Sunak goes easy on Starmer during his first PMQs as leader
Much of the dialogue between the PM and Tory leader was rooted in agreement.
Tory leadership race officially begins, as James Cleverly joins contest
The shadow home secretary is the first Conservative to throw his hat in the ring, as nominations for the first round of the contest opened today.
All eyes on Paris ahead of Olympics opening ceremony
France’s opening ceremony promises to be quite the spectacle, provided security threats can be kept at bay.
Shaping news: terrorism spreads in the Sahel and China plays peace-broker in the Middle East
Pay attention to the shaping news, not just the breaking news.
Could Kamala Harris shift the swing states to the Democrats?
Harris’s vice-presidential pick could make all the difference.
King’s Speech: no mention of small business, the bedrock of Britain’s economy
Small businesses provide half of the country’s wealth and the bulk of all private sector jobs yet they have been ignored by Starmer’s new policies.
Corporates should prepare for a ramped-up culture war
A Labour government will press more equality or climate legislation on companies, accompanied by a furious backlash from the Right.
What oil bust?
We used to worry that “peak oil” meant that we were running out of the stuff. This has morphed into a forecast of chronic surplus.
A government takeover of Thames Water would be an outrage
The new government’s hand is strong enough to resist nationalisation, which would stick over £18bn of debt onto the taxpayer.
Whacking more tariffs on Chinese goods won’t solve anything
The US and Europe risk a serious bout of inflation if they carry on down the same path.
A Long Time in Finance: an audience with the bond market’s Wyatt Earp
Neil and Jonathan speak to Jim Leaviss, one of Britain’s best known bond fund managers, about the huge bull market in bonds.
Superpowers are preparing for space wars
Satellites are important targets in war. At the moment, they are completely unprotected.
The brightest object in the universe is a black hole that eats a star a day
The light from this monster has taken more than 12 billion years to reach us, which means it would have stopped growing long ago.
Nuclear fusion record provides hope amid global temperature rise
The geopolitical, not just environmental, implications of commercial fusion are vast.
Most significant IT outage in world history unleashes chaos
Today’s unintentional lapse exposes the alarming vulnerability of our global digital systems. Systems that are ripe for targeting by malicious actors.
Electric car? No thanksÂ
Stats on the sales of second-hand electric cars show what happens when legislation pushes supply and demand out of balance.
Why Europe’s youth are embracing the hard-rightÂ
Jordan Bardella is a TikTok sensation while Germany’s hard-right AfD reaches as many young Germans on the app as all other parties combined.
How the Ukrainians – with no navy – defeated Russia’s Black Sea Fleet
Kyiv’s most surprising success came in a theatre where few expected it to prevail: at sea.
Biden incapacity is a risk to NATO and the world
The West needs to talk soft and carry a big stick; at present it is doing the reverse
China begins war games to coincide with NATO summit
NATO seeks to put forward a united front against Russia at its 75th anniversary summit, but is undermined by divisions over China.
ID cards: Starmer  won’t be able to avoid another big debate despite ministers ruling them outÂ
The PM will have to tread carefully around Blair’s call for UK to introduce ID cards which he claims will curb migration
Tim Shipman on the Brexit decade
Iain Martin talks to Tim Shipman about the new installment of his Brexit Quartet and the political gambles, successes and failures that led Brexit Britain to where it is today.
Nigel Farage on his way back from the jungle is hoping to do a King Arthur
The liberal contempt that made Farage so popular can still be found in spades.
Campus free speech remains in peril in America, despite university reforms
A growing number of US students support violent protest to stop a controversial campus speech from going ahead, according to a new survey.
American university protests herald the age of arrested developmentÂ
Protest is a perennial feature of university life and immaturity. But these kids may never grow up.
Birbalsingh’s success is an affront to the cult of identity politics
It’s not the privileged, identitarian critics of the Michaela School that need its life-changing education.
Covid Inquiry is failing in its mission, say leading academics
A group of academics has urged the inquiry “address its apparent biases, assumptions, impartiality, & lack of evidence-based approach” as a matter of “urgent national priority”.
Decade-long Sturgeon personality cult ends in tears
Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon has gone from the Great Pooh-bah of All the Jocks to the shrunken, sobbing penitent giving evidence at the Covid Inquiry.
Francis Hoar on the Covid disaster
Iain Martin talks to Francis Hoar about the disaster of political decision-making during the pandemic.
Shaping news: terrorism spreads in the Sahel and China plays peace-broker in the Middle East
Pay attention to the shaping news, not just the breaking news.
Ian Stewart’s summer reading list
From a longread on late bloomers to a podcast on quaker shopkeepers, Deloitte’s Chief Economist recommends six free reads and two listens.
The Sun backs Starmer
Murdoch swings behind Starmer’s Labour, but it’s a far cry from 1997.