Matt Ridley
Sir Keir Starmer has woken up to the fact that his policies are killing one of Britain’s last successful manufacturing industries, the £90-billion-a-year car industry, on which 800,000 jobs depend. ‘This is the beginning of a new era,’ said Starmer yesterday, as he announced plans to aid the motor industry by relaxing environmental rules following Trump’s 25 […]
Whoever you vote for, the Blob wins
Matt Ridley
At the age of 66 I feel like a first-time voter. As a member of the House of Lords, I was not allowed to vote in the last three general elections. But I retired from the House in 2021, so democracy here I come. I shall scan the ballot paper with interest: who is standing […]
The Government is still fighting the wrong war on Covid-19
Matt Ridley
Their hasty over-reaction to the arrival of a new variant reflects just how little we truly understand this virus My article for the Telegraph: Here we go again, fighting the last war. Because governments are perceived to have moved too slowly to ban flights when the delta variant arose in India, we jumped into action […]
