17.12.2018
I’m beginning to think Brexit won’t happen. This will destroy democracy as we know itIt’s over. If Brexit happens at all – and for the first time I’m beginning to think it won’t ...
09.12.2018
A good play doesn’t just reconstruct history - it tells us something about ourselvesWhen Shakespeare wrote Julius Caesar, he was not primarily interested in recording the story of the late Roman Republic...
08.12.2018
If Tory MPs keep Theresa May after this, they will damn themselvesEvery possible scenario that might follow the PM's defeat requires a new leader...
01.12.2018
No deal is now the only option left - and we must respond by liberalising our economyThere won’t be a deal...
24.11.2018
This is a calamitous, cowardly Brexit deal - and we’re now being shafted for it by the EUSunday, according to gleeful Remainers, is the day that Brexit fantasies collide with cold reality. ...
11.11.2018
For an example of the power of open markets, look no further than Hong KongI wrote in these pages last week about the idea of an Anglosphere free trade nexus ...
11.11.2018
Though the way we remember World War One constantly changes, we mourn all the sameWe will remember them....
04.11.2018
The Commonwealth is booming – it’s time to embrace free trade with the AnglosphereFlights to Australia have been around for almost as long as commercial air travel itself. ...
04.11.2018
Putting business leaders in Britain’s embassies will give us dynamism and much-needed perspectiveGeorge Shultz, Ronald Reagan’s secretary of state, had a little ritual when he appointed new American ambassadors...
27.10.2018
In an ideal world, all MPs would have second jobsWe’re going through one of our chronic spasms of outrage about MPs working in the private sector....
20.10.2018
Saudi Arabia’s ‘liberal’ shift was always PR spinThe Saudis have our measure, I’m afraid. ...
14.10.2018
Brexit on Theresa May’s terms would be the worst of all worldsI was one of the few Leavers to back Chequers, but the latest plan is a step too far...
07.10.2018
Socialism is in our genes, but reason trumps itFree markets work. That’s not a slogan, it’s an observation. A country with an enterprise-based economy will always...
30.09.2018
The Eurocrats are expecting us to drop Brexit. How little they understand the BritishThe EU apparat isn’t interested in a mutually beneficial deal with Britain....
22.09.2018
Corbyn could be PM. And that is terrifyingPrime Minister Jeremy Corbyn. Say the words aloud. Seriously, say them. Prime. Minister. Jeremy. Corbyn. ...
15.09.2018
Over protected and under challenged - our students have turned their backs on the EnlightenmentIt’s the suddenness that’s so shocking....
09.09.2018
Britain is an island of contentment in an EU driven by Brussels to populist revoltIt’s happening during an upswing – that’s what’s so startling. ...
02.09.2018
Lab-produced meat will transform the world for the better. What are we waiting for?Here’s a challenge. The next time you eat meat, try to think about what happens in an abattoir....
19.08.2018
Trump and Corbyn have both turned political tribes into fanatical cultsBoth hanker after the protectionism that kept much of the world poor until the mid-twentieth century...
12.08.2018
Protect our green spaces, not our green beltDriving from Hampshire to Edinburgh this week I was struck, yet again, by how exquisite our island is....
05.08.2018
Britain would be foolish to ignore China’s overturesThe first is uncontroversial: America is our strongest ally and chief trading partner...
05.08.2018
So now we know: the Left’s ‘anti-Racism’ does not extend to solidarity with JewsJust imagine what would happen if Labour members said these things about any other group...
30.07.2018
Capitalist Britain ‘literally’ overthrew slaveryWhich country is the capital of modern slavery?...
22.07.2018
Communism sent millions to their deaths - so why is it cool to wear it on your T shirt?The cool crowd can’t contain their excitement...
14.07.2018
Theresa May’s Brexit plan is an embarrassing climbdown, but I would vote for it nonethelessIt’s a climbdown, no question. ...
08.07.2018
From Adam Smith onwards, classical liberals have known that capitalism makes people less selfishWhen he was three years old, the story goes, Adam Smith was kidnapped by a band of gypsies near Strathendry....
01.07.2018
Forget the EU single market – it’s time for an Anglosphere free trade zoneThe two greatest living conservative statesmen were coincidentally in Britain this week....
30.06.2018
Sad to say, Britain’s national anthem is a miserable dirge. Let’s replace itSome years ago, I was invited to address the conference of a Eurosceptic French political party....
25.06.2018
A manifesto to bring the nation back together after BrexitI still remember the sunrise: jagged, yellow and cheerful after long days of rain. ...
17.06.2018
It would be stupid to ignore sliding IQsYour grandmother may have had a point. People these days really are stupider....
10.06.2018
Britain is dangerously close to a Brexit deal that is worse than staying or leaving the EUGeorge Soros is too late....
26.05.2018
Corbyn lacks moral maturity over IrelandMany Leftists are conflicted when it comes to nationalism....
20.05.2018
Tribal MPs are doing the EU’s dirty workThe officials in Brussels are incredulous. Literally incredulous. ...
13.05.2018
Flat taxes get more money from the richCoyly, fitfully, Australia is inching towards a flat tax. ...
05.05.2018
Why would anyone be a Marxist now?Two hundred years have passed since Karl Marx was born among the sloping vineyards of the Moselle Valley...
29.04.2018
Brexit Britain is far ahead in the race for AIHow parochial our present anxieties will soon seem, how paltry....
23.04.2018
The EU believes it can push Britain around over Northern Ireland. They don’t know BritainThis week, the European Union made clear that it was not interested in a mutually beneficial relationship with Britain. ...
14.04.2018
Andrew Neil is one of the BBC’s few Right-wingers. And now the Left has had enough of himIt may strike you as unhinged to accuse the BBC of Eurosceptic or Right-wing partiality. ...
08.04.2018
Anti-Semitism on the Left is nothing new. It has a long and cruel historyFor two years, Labour batted away charges of anti-Semitism in its ranks with a kind of injured incredulity....
24.03.2018
It’s unsettling, but algorithms could soon cure us of our unconscious political biasesIf you’re reading this article online, take a look at the advertisements....
19.03.2018
Openness to overseas talent has helped us beat larger foesFor eighteen months, hardline Europhiles have applied a simple algorithm to every economic development. ...
11.03.2018
We must stand up to Russia, even over the fate of just one man. That shows we´re better than PutinThe last thing we needed, quite frankly, was a new row with Russia....
10.03.2018
A doomed production at the National Theatre? What do you expect of The Scottish PlayThere has never been a better place to watch Shakespeare than contemporary London...
04.03.2018
The EU is treating Britain like North Korea. It’s time we prepared to walk awayEurocrats behave like pre-programmed Twitterbots when it comes to Brexit. ...
24.02.2018
Corbyn’s war on the free press is proof he’s unfit to be PMJeremy Corbyn, like many people, reveals himself in moments of stress....
17.02.2018
If Jeremy Corbyn dislikes his country so much, he isn’t fit to lead itThis ought to be the end for Jeremy Corbyn....
10.02.2018
No Left-winger should want to stay in the customs unionSpot on, Jezza! Euro-protectionism was, in large measure, why Labour opposed joining the Common Market in the first place. ...
04.02.2018
The Jacob Rees-Mogg scuffle was an assault on free speechBritain has, historically, been blessedly free from political violence....
28.01.2018
Cloned monkeys force us to confront the hardest question of all: How can we be special if we’re justAfter all, 22 years have passed since the birth of the first cloned animal, Dolly the Sheep. ...
21.01.2018
Coalition politics has turned European democracy into a beige dictatorshipWe’ll find out soon whether Germany’s Social Democrats will join their Christian Democrat rivals in yet another Grand Coalition....
19.01.2018
Daniel Hannan: Put out more flagsBrussels has started infringement proceedings against Poland, accusing it of packing its courts....
07.01.2018
Strange and counter-intuitive as it may seem, Britain’s trading future lies across the PacificThere is nothing desperate or deluded about Britain joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership...
24.12.2017
The Brexit transition proposal would turn Britain into a vassal of the EUBrussels has started infringement proceedings against Poland, accusing it of packing its courts. ...
03.12.2017
Is the Irish border row a ploy to pry Northern Ireland from the UK?There is something surreal about the Irish border row....
02.12.2017
Jeremy Corbyn would squander the potential of Brexit with even more regulation than BrusselsNever mind the chilling effect of Brexit on the economy, which we kept hearing about last year....
25.11.2017
The lynch-mob Left are fake news expertsThe term “fake news” has, with striking swiftness, become part of the Leftist lexicon....
19.11.2017
Can animals think? And if they can, is it right to treat them as we do?Do they remember things? Do they, in a word, think?...
18.11.2017
Mugabe’s crime is to have denied his people the freedom and prosperity that trade, not aid, has brouIt is hard not to cheer the end of Robert Mugabe’s autocracy...
13.11.2017
Stop condemning tax havens. It’s perfectly legitimate to avoid taxationHere are some ways in which you might legally reduce your tax bill....
05.11.2017
Remember, remember the 5th of November is about parliamentary sovereignty – and Brexit opportunityNovember was dark in 17th-century England – darker than we, in our light-polluted age, can easily understand....
04.11.2017
Higher interest rates are no bad thing, but the European Arrest Warrant most certainly isThe funniest response to the 0.25 percentage point rise in interest rates came from James McGrory...
29.10.2017
100 years and 100 million deaths later, Communism still has its converts. Why?We are approaching the most monstrous of centenaries....
28.10.2017
Outraged about public sector pay? So am IDo you think nurses should be paid more? Of course you do. Who wouldn’t? ...
22.10.2017
The tale of Europe’s 20th century is uplifting, but it is not our taleI admit it: I entered the House of European History in a cynical mood....
21.10.2017
Like any parent, Britain should take pride in IsraelAsked to apologise for the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which led to the foundation of Israel, the Government was admirably robust....
15.10.2017
Our modern complaints are more trivial than ever in human history – and that’s brilliantWere we truly better off 20 years ago? ...
14.10.2017
Free trade will always enrich our country. If we can’t embrace it now, Brexit was pointlessHovering behind our Brexit anxieties is a belief that Britain isn’t up to it....
14.10.2017
The Norman Conquest was a disaster for England. We should celebrate Naseby, not HastingsThe Norman Conquest was a cataclysm for the English people. After 1066, the country was clenched in a mailed fist....
08.10.2017
The meaning of death will be very different when our society cures ageingIn the end”, wrote Goethe glumly, “we are all King Lear”....
07.10.2017
Socialism is not harmless: I still remember the day Left-wing thugs invaded my family farmI was five when a mob invaded our family farm...
01.10.2017
Britain’s future is as a nation state - not in the EU empireThe world of tomorrow is a world of empires...
25.09.2017
By embracing free trade, we can use Brexit to make everyone better offFree trade between a rich and a poor country, as between any two countries, benefits both ...
17.09.2017
How Hurricane Irma discredits Leftist economicsAsurprising number of commentators think that Hurricane Irma will end up boosting the American economy....
03.09.2017
Others outside the EU access its market. So why can’t we?We want you to hand us a wodge of money, and we insist that you calculate the appropriate sum!...
26.08.2017
Protesting against statues of Nelson, Churchill or Rhodes is just a way of showing offDoes Winston Churchill deserve a statue? He wrote some nasty things about Muslims....
21.08.2017
Continuity Remainers are so determined to hate Brexit that they’ve become detached from realityThe anguish surrounding Brexit cannot be explained in purely political terms...
19.08.2017
The hard truth about terrorism is that there isn’t a lot more we can do to stop itThere is a familiar pattern, almost a ritual, that follows each terrorist outrage...
15.08.2017
Venezuela and Vichy: why does Socialist brutality get an easier ride than Fascism?Venezuela’s agony is provoking spectacular gymnastics from British Leftists....
08.08.2017
Why we should all embrace depending on the rest of the world for our foodBritain is importing 42 per cent of its food – the highest figure for half a century....
16.07.2017
Britain and Africa will prosper together if we ditch the EU’s economic colonialismThe further you travel from Brussels, the likelier people are to see Brexit as an opportunity...
15.07.2017
The childishness of Remain refuseniks can’t stop Brexit, but it might damage itWhat do they hope to achieve, the Remain refuseniks currently filling our airwaves with their threats and lamentations?...
09.07.2017
Corbyn has taken control of the debate and is leading us into a miserable, debt-laden futureJeremy Corbyn is winning. I don’t just mean he is ahead in the opinion polls – although, horrifyingly, he is....
19.05.2017
Theresa May has unveiled the internationalist Brexit of my dreamsWe are leaving the European Union....
08.05.2017
Emmanuel Macron as French president would be terrible for Britain – but not as bad as Marine Le PenLet’s get one thing clear at the outset....
01.03.2017
What on Earth is Nigel Farage so cross about?After 44 years of being subject to Brussels, we’re finally recovering our self-government. Project Fear has been exposed as a no...
04.02.2017
Brexit is the chance to reform the EU for the good of everyone – if only its rulers could see itWhat sort of EU do we want next door? We know well enough what arrangement we’d like –a close alliance based on trade and friend...
27.11.2016
Donald Trump could lead a new revolution in CubaSola mors tyrannicida est, wrote Thomas More: death is the only way to get rid of tyrants. And so it has proved for Fidel Castro...
03.11.2016
The High Court’s Article 50 ruling highlights the gulf between the country and the eliteDuring the referendum campaign, the Government controversially spent £9.3 million on distributing a brochure to every British...
26.10.2016
Brexit must open our economy to the world – not lock it away behind protectionist barriersLeaving the EU was never an end in itself. It was only ever a means to an end – that end being a freer, wealthier and more...
14.10.2016
The Norman Conquest was a disaster for England. We should celebrate Naseby, not HastingsThe Norman Conquest was a cataclysm for the English people. After 1066, the country was clenched in a mailed fist. Castles,...
27.09.2016
Brexit has broken our political Ice Age.There are three aspects to getting Brexit right: our relationship with the remaining 27 EU states; our relationship with the...
29.07.2016
Remoaners are determined to find bad newsLloyds Bank, we were told on Thursday, was shedding thousands of jobs because Britain had voted to leave the EU. The BBC assumed...
28.06.2016
We Leavers are not racists, bigots, or hooligans – no matter what the bitter broadcasters sayOn Saturday, as the referendum result sank in, ITV evening news ran a feature on the Pride parade in London. The presenter’s...
22.06.2016
Forget Project Fear. Be positive. Choose dynamism. Choose BrexitThe door is ajar. Through the crack, we can see swallows wheeling and dipping. We hear the cuckoo’s call. We smell meadows,...
08.04.2016
Not even David Cameron’s £9.3 million on a leaflet will sell an idea whose time has passedUntil this week, no one could accuse David Cameron of trying to rig the referendum. He accepted the Electoral Commission’s...
