No one has ‘paid into’ the state pension. NI payments are spent by the government of the day, not put into a pot with your name on. Using these terms just perpetuates the myth that the state pension is a contributory scheme. It isn’t. It’s a non-means tested universal benefit

The people who manage your pension and savings should always be aiming to maximise your returns. But ESG has distorted this. Your returns are lower because managers are aiming to bankroll political causes. The brilliant @jamesd_graham’s report expertly lays out why you are

Germany is celebrating the late Queen! A special stamp marks what would have been Queen Elizabeth II’s 100th birthday on 21 April. It honours her legacy and work towards reconciliation between the UK and Germany.

A minority of voices in European politics want to side with Trump’s America in Iran at a moment when the transatlantic alliance is as weak as it’s ever been, reports David Patrikarakos.

@Keir_Starmer Keir, this very morning you are putting up vehicle excise duty, air passenger duty, landfill tax, aggregates tax, plastic packaging tax, the climate change levy and business rates. All of these tax hikes are increasing the cost of living. So stop claiming that you are cutting it.

Oxford theologian and historian @NigelBiggar joins @ARoberts_Andrew on Secrets of Statecraft to explore the personal and intellectual firestorm surrounding his work on empire, colonialism, and reparations. Biggar recounts how his "Ethics and Empire" project triggered a

Tulip Siddiq, an international fugitive, is still a Labour MP btw

Unbelievable. A warship of this size and cost should mount multiple defensive systems - electronic, guns, and missiles. If you skimp on that guess what? The prospect of losing them means you will keep them out of harms way

Latest UK GDP figures confirm sluggish economic growth in second half of 2025 - just 0.1pc per quarter. Further evidence that UK economic growth in the 2020s is turning out to be the worst decade for the UK economy in 100 years!

That brilliant Starmer fuel crisis plan in full: 1. Chair COBRA meeting 2. Blame everyone else for fuel profiteering 3. Call for de-escalation in the Gulf 4. Post more dishonest drivel on X about how Labour are helping working people. 5. Repeat steps 1 - 4.

Some of Mrs Thatcher's achievements: 🆙️Eight years of growth at over 3% ⬇️Public spending back to mid 1960s ⬇️Basic income tax the lowest since 1930s 🆙️Privatisation raised £27.5 billion 🆙️6 million more home owners 🆙️Living standards up by third 🆙️share ownership up

What a treat to spend the afternoon with 105-year-old WW2 veteran and Mosquito pilot (undertaking 50 bombing raids over Germany) Colin Bell. He is truly among the most remarkable people I've ever met, and I can't wait to get stuck into his brilliant memoir, Bloody Dangerous.

Britain is rapidly becoming a two-tier society, where politicians and benefit claimants are protected from economic struggles while a shrinking class of working, productive taxpayers shoulder an increasingly heavy burden. @yarwoodwilliam explains

The Left simultaneously argues: - all immigration is economically beneficial and culturally enriching - immigrants are poverty stricken and we’re morally rotten if we don’t spend a fortune on them Their deliberately dishonest thinking will bankrupt us.

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Virtually no Labour MPs come from industry or business, and almost certainly have no idea how wealth is generated. No wonder the economy is tanking.

This is an astonishing fact from today’s Sunday Times. At least 224 out of 257 new Labour MPs elected in July 2024 came from either charities or communications/lobbying agencies, or were formerly “political employees”. It explains so much about Labour backbenchers’ priorities.

Air Passenger Duty (APD) is being hiked once again this week, such that 4 adults flying from the UK to New York this Easter in premium economy will pay £1950 between them in APD. The tax is not just making holidays more expensive & increasing the cost of living, it's also

UK net zero latest. Killing off the chemicals industry, and next up salt. Britain has plentiful supplies of salt, but with sky high net zero energy policies it seems we may soon have to import it instead. Brilliant.

Because regulators are diversity zealots, major companies in Britain need 40% of their board members to be women. Businesses should be judged on their products and services. Instead, regulators are obsessed with DEI. It’s none of their business and it’s crushing the economy.