Iconic Films

Boris Johnson: revolutionary mayor

The battle for London need not be so lacklustre. There is a big opportunity for the Tories

Prepare for 30% fall in house prices

Will the Bank of England and the Government respond to the housing downturn as energetically as the Federal Reserve Board?

No wonder Russia is paranoid

The West finds it hard to understand, but Nato's expansion is provocative to Russian eyes

US optimism makes me optimistic

To predict the fallout from the credit crunch is all but impossible, but there are good signs

Fingers crossed, Alistair Darling

If Darling is right about Britain’s economic resilience, the economic strategy behind the uneventful Budget will pay off

Can Darling control the non-dom dog?

The most important announcement in the Budget will not be about public sector borrowing or government spending

They must go for Hillary Clinton

Forget all the razzmatazz over Obama. The Democrats have only one option for president

Why Heathrow is a terminal case

There are four inescapable reasons why the third runway should not be built

The disasters of Brown and Major

Look at the events around Black Wednesday in 1992: you see remarkable parallels with today

Kaletsky: Absolutely, incredibly, utterly wrong!

The Northern Rock fiasco has just started, with the Government now officially in charge

Devil in the detail of financial announcements

Anyone who feels nationalisation will end the Government’s dithering over the Rock, must live in Brown's Looking Glass world

Darling's confidence seems misplaced

Despite all the troubles in the world economy, the UK has nothing much to worry about, according to the Treasury

Emergency: intensive care needed

The British economy is in big trouble and needs a big interest rate cut today to counter possible disasters ahead

Now you've got to speak out

Mervyn King's reappointment brings with it the need to act boldly over Northern Rock

Our economy isn’t manic depressive

George Soros’s doom laden proclamation ignores a powerful force in human nature: rationality

Gordon Brown's Black Wednesday

The Northern Rock disaster has torn away any remaining credibility the Prime Minister had

We must name our price

Governments are going to have to bail out the banks; in return they must change their ways

Slowdown, but not crash and burn

Apart from the impossibility of defining a recession, it's impossible to predict if Britain will have one