All news by author: Ross Clark

WHO needs Keir Starmer to compromise our national energy security and push up our bills when we have the Supreme Court to do it for us?&nb

IT is no accident that the Conservatives chose to start their election campaign by promising to make it easier for us all to change to cheaper energy

IT has taken a long time for Sir Keir Starmer and his colleagues to realise the full horror of the Government’s Rwanda scheme, but they have finally

I OFTEN wonder what the highly principled lawyers who drafted the original European Convention on Human Rights in 1949, and who a decade later set up

DOES anyone really believe that the strikes paralysing the railways this weekend, the National Education Union’s threat to strike in September, and

THE roads leading out of West London were one of the favourite hunting grounds of 18th century highwayman Dick Turpin.But he did not operate with anyw

WE like to comfort ourselves that the British justice system is among the fairest in the world.Even when it gets things wrong — as it did horrendous

WE’VE heard the Government ­promise to deport foreign criminals so many times now that it is hard to take seriously the announcement by Justice Sec

MANY people will have been scratching their heads over the past couple of days wondering what all that fuss in the Commons was about.The Speaker, Sir

NEWS that inflation remained at four per cent in January will come as a relief, not least because food prices are now falling after two years of sharp

IT’S a long time since anyone described the Church of England as the “Conservative Party at prayer”.Nowadays, it is more like the Refugee Counci

WHEN will our grasping councils finally work out that by penalising motorists they are shooting themselves in the foot?This week, Labour-run Westminst

THIS year Britain has already gained a folk hero in Alan Bates, the former sub-postmaster who doggedly sought to expose the wrongful prosecution of co

AS an object lesson in how powerful people evade responsibility, Ed Davey’s letter to Post Office campaigner Alan Bates could hardly be bettered.At

I AM pleased that ITV has made a drama out of the Post Office scandal – Mr Bates vs The Post Office – which started on Monday evening, featuring T

IN KEEPING with modern tradition, many thousands of us headed to the shops this week in the hope of bagging a bargain in the Boxing Day sales.But for

THREE years ago, millions of Britons turned out on their doorsteps every Thursday evening to clap NHS staff.It was a gesture which recognised th

REMEMBER when the civil service existed to manage the country’s affairs, to ensure that government policies are enacted and that our schools and hos

FOR Boris Johnson’s enemies, today is the day they have been looking forward to for years. It is his turn to appear before the Covid show trial.It

FROM HS2 to the 2012 Olympics, I am sick of governments selling us grand projects on the basis of enticingly small estimates – only for costs to esc

IF I were Andy Burnham I would be spitting brass tacks at Rishi Sunak’s cancellation of the northern leg of HS2.The Greater Manchester mayor has eve

IT is 75 years since George Orwell gave us Big Brother – the all- seeing, all-listening presence which would keep watch on us 24 hours a day in a fu

MICHAEL GOVE told us last week that net zero must not become a “religious crusade”. “I think we should relax the pace,” he said, echoing senti

SHOULD we really believe Keir Starmer hates tree huggers?That is what the Labour leader is reported to have said to his Shadow Climate Change and Net

YOU may remember the chaotic dying days of Theresa May’s government in June 2019, as the former Prime Minister tried to avert a “no deal” Brexit