Ross Clark

2 days ago | spectator.co.uk | Ross Clark

If the consequences of Labour’s heavy losses in the local elections were not already clear, they became so in this morning’s press conference to relaunch the government’s migration policy. Reversing years of generally friendly attitudes towards migration, dating back to Tony Blair’s day – when the UK opened its doors to migrant workers from Eastern Europe seven years ahead of most EU countries – Keir Starmer has unashamedly tried to reposition Labour as an anti-immigration party.

5 days ago | spectator.co.uk | Ross Clark

Here’s a question: do you think that Bill Gates would have started and built up his Microsoft empire had the top rate of US income tax been 99 per cent? I don’t know Gates but I think the answer is obvious. Why would he have put in all those hours and taken all those risks if the state was going to snatch away virtually all the rewards?

6 days ago | spectator.com.au | Ross Clark

We had the shock of ‘Liberation day’ when punitive tariffs were levied on imports from virtually every country in the world. That was the destructive part of Donald Trump’s trade war. Now we enter phase two: trying to put things back together again. The announcement of trade deal with a ‘big and highly-respected country’ (believed to be the UK) on Thursday morning is significant not just in itself but because Trump added the suggestion that this will be ‘the first of many’.

6 days ago | spectator.co.uk | Ross Clark

We had the shock of ‘Liberation day’ when punitive tariffs were levied on imports from virtually every country in the world. That was the destructive part of Donald Trump’s trade war. Now we enter phase two: trying to put things back together again. The announcement of trade deal with a ‘big and highly-respected country’ (believed to be the UK) on Thursday morning is significant not just in itself but because Trump added the suggestion that this will be ‘the first of many’.

1 week ago | dailymail.co.uk | Amber Hicks |Ross Clark

And so it begins. The world's most secretive ceremony to select a new Pope is underway, almost two weeks after Francis was buried. Never will a chimney have so many eyes fixed upon it awaiting what colour smoke will billow. That tiny chimney, installed by firefighters just last week, is of course the one on the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. Inside, more than a hundred Cardinals will scrutinise and mull over who will be the new leader of the Catholic Church.