It appears that the Chancellor’s sums are not adding up - how unlike a real economist that is, eh?

Some in the anti-alcohol and anti-tobacco lobby have their sights set on the traditional British pub.

Amis was referring specifically to universities but we can widen this a bit to government involvement in education itself:

Most people would agree on the Twentieth Century’s most evil leaders with relative ease. The benign ones are harder to agree upon.

People should confront their family members who read news from “nefarious” sources, suggests the environmentalist Mike Berners-Lee.

Despite the frisson we all feel for the straight-talking from the toolmaker’s son.

There are things that are logically true and yet somewhat difficult politically. This is just another of those reasons why we’re not wholly enamoured with politics as a way of running things.

Ukraine is believed to have vast ­mineral reserves, including 19 million tonnes of graphite and a third of Europe’s lithium, both of which are used in batteries, as well as large ­deposits of rare earth metals, used to produce electronics used in everything from iPhones to fighter jets.

Trump and his crew have shone a harsh light on European defence, showing it up as dysfunctional, all the way from boots on the ground through budgets to production capacity.

Are there benefits to heading off climate change?

It seems that the political cycle has changed. It used to be thought that after left-leaning governments had broken the economy by reckless spending, the UK public would elect right-leaning ones to fix it.

In fact, another one of those reasons why everyone talking about the wealth distribution, wealth inequality, is wrong.