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All my adult life I have lived with Labour lies about tax cuts. Their cry is always the same. Tax cuts are impossible in a civilised society. They mean less […]

Passengers standing on trains, drivers sitting in traffic jams, homeowners bailing out flood water , travellers delayed trying to board a plane, and people queuing to get drinking water out […]

The Prime Minister kindly helped the Chancellor bury the bad news of a further increase in interest rates yesterday. The UK has higher inflation and higher interest rates than our […]

I am fed up with celebrity politics. Ken Livingstone sums up much of what I dislike about it. He struts the stage of London as if he were the Foreign […]

WHICH laws should we scrap? * Just when each family is feeling the pinch thanks to Gordon Brown's pounds 1,300 of extra tax compared to 1997, up pops the Chancellor […]

'Crisis, what crisis?' ask ministers, as the police circle Downing Street over cash for peerage allegations. 'Crisis, what crisis?' echo the Lib Dems, as they are investigated over their biggest […]

Oxford is a world-class university. Its reputation for learning reverberates around the educational globe. We live in an era when everything is becoming more competitive, with China and India now […]

Voter interest in elections has declined sharply this century. In the 2005 general election twice as many people failed to vote as voted for the winning party. It is now […]

Byline: John Redwood In one way bonds are an easy investment to understand. If interest rates go up, the value of ordinary bonds that pay the same amount of interest [...]

The media commotion over my appointment to the shadow cabinet was more heat than light, while Alan Milburn's recall to the colours triggered a major row within the governing party. […]

David Blunkett's love life is in the headlines when his work as Home Secretary deserves the brickbats. I do not want to make a window into his private life. My […]

I like my car. It's never late for me, but I can be late for it. It takes me from where I am to where I want to go. It […]

The debate on public spending in the UK is little more than an unseemly brawl between the main political parties. The government thinks every problem in the public services can [...]

Today's Budget is being portrayed as a gargantuan struggle between the good guys, who want to put taxes up to pay for a better health service, and the bad guys, [...]

The railway has struggled through the last 50 years. Government ownership and, latterly, heavy-handed regulation, have helped it to slip in a fast-growing travel market. It has failed to persuade [...]

Britain is not happy in its relationship with Europe. It all began as a romantic affair, to spend happy trading days together. Most people did not realise it would lead […]

THE European Union is strongly anti-American. Its advocates are out to create a Euro patriotism based on dislike of things trans-Atlantic. Senators Jesse Helms and Gordon Smith were right to […]

The Prime Minister is trying to drape himself in the Union flag. There must be an election in the offing. A minister for patriotism has been appointed, even if no […]

One of the most absurd ideas put around by Labour's spinners is the notion that Tony Blair is the true heir to Margaret Thatcher. The claim upsets the Labour left, [...]

From John Redwood MP. Sir, I was surprised to see leading businessmen signing an advertisement in the name of their companies on the politically charged issue of our relations with [...]

Byline: John Redwood Most of the experts and governments agree -- more growth would be a good thing. For the heavily indebted countries, more growth might bring down unemployment and [...]

From John Redwood, MP. Sir, I do wish the Financial Times would not keep misleading its readers about the press conference I held to offer a fair deal for the [...]

FOUR YEARS ago, when Europe's leaders pledged themselves to a 1999 deadline for a single currency, they had scant regard for whether the goal was politically or even technically achievable. [...]