12.05.2020
The virus has put the European project into intensive careThe EU might survive, but only in the sense that the late Holy Roman Empire did - as a title, a shell, a memory....
04.05.2020
Irrational fears, rather than cold science, are prolonging the closuresDiseases bring out our Stone Age heuristics: avoid strangers, hoard food, keep your children close...
27.04.2020
Sweden’s success is starting to infuriate the lockdown enthusiastsThey won't be able to claim afterwards that things would have been even worse without their closures....
20.04.2020
Extending the Brexit transition would be the worst of all possible responsesSome Remainers have become like Jacobites, clinging to their cause long after it has ceased to be a practical possibility....
13.04.2020
We should begin a phased loosening of the lockdown - starting with shops and schoolsThe purpose of the closures was simply to buy time, not to stop all infections....
06.04.2020
The uselessness of our quangos is becoming lethalSurely everyone can now see why we need to get on top of the administrative state....
29.03.2020
This isn’t about money versus lives, it’s about lives versus livesEvery day that these restrictions remain in place is lethal, and a balance needs to be found...
22.03.2020
Panic? Troops on standby? Empty shelves? London has never seemed so far away.In these parts, the chief emotion is not fear of infection, but concern about the economic impact of the crackdown...
16.03.2020
Retreating from globalisation is the worst possible response to the coronavirusBanning flights, closing borders, demanding self-sufficiency - all are aimed at our irrational inner caveman...
09.03.2020
We are wired to dislike free marketsWhat newspapers call "price gouging" is in fact a logical response to panic buying....
08.03.2020
England’s northern towns stand to gain the most from free trade - now as alwaysFrom the Anti-Corn Law League to the present, free trade was primarily about lower prices for working people...
22.02.2020
If these are the EU’s terms, we should save everyone time and walk away nowNo self-respecting nation can accept terms offered in a calculatedly vindictive spirit...
16.02.2020
Where is the outrage when a party with a private army wins the Irish election?Brussels sanctioned Austria over the Freedom Party. Washington sanctioned Palestine over Hamas. Why is Ireland different?...
02.02.2020
Everything has felt a bit better since 31 JanuaryEven Remainers - at least, off Twitter - have been affected by the optimism...
19.01.2020
I’ve learned the hard way that bad police reform just breeds more pen pushersOK, I admit it. Police and Crime Commissioners are, at least in part, my fault....
18.01.2020
Roger Scruton was the greatest conservative thinker of our agever the past 18 months, all the men who had the greatest influence on me at the beginning of my adulthood have died....
12.01.2020
The Conservatives are not losing control of public spending, they’re simply taking advantage of cheaLook, I’m going to come right out and ask the question. Have the Conservatives given up on fiscal rectitude?...
11.01.2020
The hardline Remainers can’t stand the idea of Brexit workingYou know how all the people who wanted a “People’s Vote” turned out to be Remainers? ...
05.01.2020
Why does Labour have such a problem with patriotism?Patriotism is a prerequisite for electoral success. ...
29.12.2019
A letter to the Eurocrats: Britain’s quarrel is with you, not with EuropeI appreciated what you called your “love letter to Britain”, published in Thursday’s Guardian....
28.12.2019
One Nation Toryism rests on patriotism, a concept the Left struggles to understandBritain’s elites have not reacted well to Boris Johnson’s victory....
22.12.2019
Why do Tories like dogs and Labour voters like cats?Imagine you had a fixed sum of money to spend on a new house....
21.12.2019
After 20 years in Brussels, even I feel a bit wistful now about the thought of leavingIt keeps happening. A Brexit date is announced....
15.12.2019
The election was a triumph for the SNP, but let’s not label it an independence upsurge yetAt any other time, it would have been the story of the election....
07.12.2019
Labour has built up a world of alternative facts – but we can see Britain is no Dickensian slumDeep down, we can’t really imagine it happening in Britain....
01.12.2019
I simply won’t appear on Channel 4 News, because it is biased, unfair and juvenileI remember the moment when I decided to stop appearing on Channel 4 News....
30.11.2019
Brexit gives us the chance to trade with new and old friends, starting with JapanLet’s remind ourselves why we are leaving the EU. ...
25.11.2019
Why the Holocaust is more than just another genocideThe easy reaction is outrage. How dare Roger Hallam, the founder of Extinction Rebellion, seek to downplay the Holocaust? ...
24.11.2019
Without the unbelievable modesty of one man, Brexit would have been impossibleThe ancient church was full of Conservative MPs pausing their election campaigns to attend a memorial service for Lord Spicer. ...
23.11.2019
The young embrace socialism because they are ignorant of its destructive powerYou think broadband is expensive now? Just wait till it’s free....
17.11.2019
To blame is human, but the authorities can only do so much to stem the tideThe flood damage, and the agony of affected families, could easily have been far greater ...
16.11.2019
The reason we don’t have a four-day week is that most of us don’t really want oneWe could all be working a four-day week now – but we want holidays and Netflix...
10.11.2019
Nigel Farage would rather scupper Brexit than let somebody else deliver itDonna Jones organised the Leave campaign in Portsmouth in 2016....
09.11.2019
30 years after the Berlin Wall’s fall, the dangerous ‘cuddly socialism’ myth has returnedThirty years ago, most observers were convinced that socialism was finished. ...
02.11.2019
Boris Johnson has risen to his role as PM - and the Remainers don’t know how to reactWhen Boris Johnson published his biography of Winston Churchill five years ago, his detractors were scathing....
27.10.2019
I thought Britain had biased, Left-wing media – until I spent time in CanadaJustin Trudeau, a man who can’t remember how many times he darkened his skin for comic effect...
26.10.2019
Labour has now run out of excuses. It can’t delay a general election any longerYou can’t live a lie forever – not even if you’re a politician....
20.10.2019
When even Nicky Morgan thinks we should end the licence fee, its time is upNo one could call Nicky Morgan an ideologue. I have known the Culture Secretary since we were students....
19.10.2019
On the cusp of victory, will Nigel Farage decide to put Brexit – or party – first?Are politicians principled or venal? The honest answer, in most cases, is “a bit of both”...
13.10.2019
It would be a lethal mistake if the West shuts its eyes to the Isil ‘bloodlands’When I first visited Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial centre in Jerusalem...
12.10.2019
The Brexit row is turning us all into devils – and our MPs are mainly to blame“Don’t you have any regrets about Brexit, Hannan?”...
06.10.2019
Social engineering in universities can only harm one of our great national assetsBritain’s strengths are in twenty-first century industries: international legal services, biotech, artificial intelligence......
05.10.2019
Leave voters can see what’s going on. They won’t blame Boris if Brexit is delayedHere’s how it will go. The EU, after some sneering and posturing, will reject Boris Johnson’s deal....
29.09.2019
From paying reparations to backing our enemies, Labour’s anti-British credo is shamefulThe single most shocking proposal to come out of the Labour conference was largely overlooked....
29.09.2019
Rich or poor, everyone will benefit from Boris Johnson’s tax cutsLower taxes are a good thing....
22.09.2019
The Germans think Shakespeare was a German – and they are rightIf but as well I other accents borrow that can my speech defuse…” says Kent in King Lear. ...
21.09.2019
If the Establishment’s coup against Brexit succeeds, our institutions will never recoverI had my Europhile three-year-old with me in Strasbourg last week. In his mind, the European Parliament means endless goodies...
15.09.2019
Eighty years after the Soviet invasion of Poland, the Western Left is still playing apologist for RuStalin needed no encouragement. ...
14.09.2019
Our democracy is being overthrown by the EU’s Hideous StrengthIt’s not about Brexit any more, at least not primarily....
08.09.2019
Sacked for using plastic? Welcome to the latest madness from the ‘woke corporation’Historically, the private sector has been conservative with a small “c”...
08.09.2019
The Left’s hatred of Singapore is based on anti-capitalist dogma, not evidenceIn 1965, Singapore went through its own “no-deal Brexit”: an ill-tempered split with the Malaysian federation....
07.09.2019
Nigel Farage can’t deliver Brexit, but he could yet block itHaving spent two years demanding a general election on an almost daily basis, Jeremy Corbyn has voted to block one....
04.09.2019
How to keep our pledges to the EU nationals who live hereAmid all the angst and acrimony, let’s cling to one area of agreement. ...
25.08.2019
Michael Gove is vindicated: state schools are finally catching up with private schoolsTake a moment to salute a heroine. ...
18.08.2019
Woke professors are failing in their duty to teach students the value of open-mindednessPeople keep asking me what I plan to do after Brexit....
17.08.2019
Hong Kong is an island of freedom. Britain cannot just ignore what is happening thereThis isn’t about the extradition bill any more....
16.08.2019
Theresa May gave the EU all it could have hoped for – now it risks losing everythingThese intransigent Eurocrats would rather a juddering rupture than see Britain succeed on its own...
11.08.2019
Three cheers for Theresa Villiers – thWho do you reckon is the most Eurosceptic member of the new Cabinet?...
04.08.2019
Trump has turned American politics inside out – as we’ll see in the next electionAt this stage in the last electoral cycle, Donald Trump was being dismissed as a joke...
03.08.2019
Harry and Meghan are talking nonsense: we’ll soon be fretting about the falling populationThe timing was unfortunate. The day after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex let it be known that, for environmental reasons......
28.07.2019
Decades of being soft on Iran has only emboldened the ayatollahsSeizing another state’s vessel on the high seas is an aggressive act – arguably an act of war....
07.07.2019
All the Nike flag row shows is that America has lost interest in the ideal of freedomIt’s the speed of the thing that is so unsettling. One moment, a word or image is completely safe – banal, even. ...
22.06.2019
No, Brexit isn’t killing Britain. It’s the refusal to deliver Brexit that’s turned politics inside o"Look what Brexit is doing to you,” a German MEP told me this week. ...
16.06.2019
Britain is headed for the one outcome we thought impossible: a Marxist-led governmentWhat if we have left it too late?...
02.06.2019
No, poverty isn’t rising – but I can’t persuade anyone to believe itNo, poverty isn't rising – but I can't persuade anyone to believe it...
01.06.2019
The Boris prosecution marks the moment at which British politics went Latin AmericanFor the first time in my life, I fear for the stability and legitimacy of our parliamentary system....
28.05.2019
The next Tory leader faces a Brexit Catch 22 that could destroy the partyAt around one o’clock on Monday morning, the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg put it to me that my party had suffered its worst..........
25.05.2019
Why do we care about British Steel any more than Blockbuster Video?What makes steel different? ...
19.05.2019
Whatever lessons you take from D-Day, it was a triumph of will and enduranceWhat does the “D” in D-Day stand for? ...
19.05.2019
We are heading for a hammer blow and the Tory party stretched out cold on the canvasLet’s suppose the opinion polls are right....
12.05.2019
Do you now have to be Left-wing to study at the University of Cambridge?Is Cambridge even pretending to be objective these days? ...
11.05.2019
Theresa May must go now if the Conservative Party is to surviveWhat is Jeremy Corbyn’s single most idiotic statement? ...
06.05.2019
Snobbery is holding our children back in the race for the next great inventionWhatever we’re paying welders, I thought, as I repeatedly failed to carry out the simplest bit of soldering, it’s not enough...
06.05.2019
The Tories have only days left to boot out Theresa May - and save the party from obliterationThe problem is Theresa May. Not her policies. Not her Withdrawal Agreement....
28.04.2019
Mrs May’s Huawei debacle is the latest result of her chronic inability to communicateThere was something horribly on-brand about the way Theresa May let her decision on Huawei dribble out....
27.04.2019
What the dickens is Emma Thompson talking about?What does the word “Dickensian” bring to your mind?...
21.04.2019
Whether we believe or not, modern society is defined by the story of EasterHanging on the wall in front of me as I write is an ornate Inca knife known as a tumi....
13.04.2019
Why I’m standing in the Euro elections that no one wanted – and urge you to vote ToryThe Conservatives are the only party that can deliver Brexit, but if things go badly for them, they may not get the chance...
06.04.2019
You cannot cancel Brexit forever, however hard Remainer MPs might tryIt’s the dishonesty that makes me so bloody angry....
23.03.2019
The reason we’re in such a mess over Brexit is because of Theresa May – it’s time for her to goThe United Kingdom is in crisis, says Number 10. ...
17.03.2019
This is the Tories’ last chance to reject May’s deal, press reset and undo her appalling mistakesIn Brussels, they are looking on with incredulous joy....
10.03.2019
The reason Brussels won’t compromise? It’s hoping Remainer MPs will keep us inStand back for a moment and ask why the EU won’t give Theresa May the tweak she is asking for. ...
09.03.2019
Politicians don’t lie as much as you’d think, they’re actually far more slippery than thatWhen I tell people that I am playing Diplomacy with a group of MPs...
02.03.2019
No self-respecting country would accept this deal. MPs must vote it downThe deal that will come before Parliament next week represents a devastating failure of British statecraft....
24.02.2019
I helped found the ERG – accusations of extremism are ridiculousThose three letters have become an abbreviation, not just for “European Research Group”,...
23.02.2019
Shamima Begum is the product of a country that no longer believes in itselfTo see the extent of the rift between the tweeting classes and the rest of the country...
16.02.2019
These Left-wing slurs on Churchill are part of a bigger war on British historyThe campaign against Winston Churchill is becoming unhinged. ...
10.02.2019
Jean-Claude Juncker embodies everything Britain detests about the EUYou want to understand why Britain voted Leave?...
09.02.2019
When even a fish is self-aware, being human doesn’t seem so specialIs a fish self-aware? Is it, in other words, conscious of its existence as something separate from its environment?...
02.02.2019
The EU is taking the hardest possible line in the hope of derailing BrexitOn Wednesday, MEPs held a Two Minutes Hate against Britain...
02.02.2019
Don’t send disgraced Labour MP Fiona Onasanya to jailThis is probably going to be the most unpopular column I write in 2019...
27.01.2019
Singapore shows us how we might make a success of Brexit – even if it’s by accidentTwo hundred years ago tomorrow, a charming, mercurial and visionary colonial agent called Sir Stamford Raffles ...
20.01.2019
The EU has shown that it wants Britain as a subject, not an allyImagine that the EU were a wholly rational actor. ...
16.01.2019
There is nothing intrinsically wrong with being ‘half-in, half-out’ of the EU - just like the BritisUnder all the usual rules of politics, it would be over for Theresa May and her European policy....
14.01.2019
A good CEO is worth the money. Let’s turn the spotlight on quangocrats insteadWe are curiously selective in our outrage. ...
13.01.2019
The EU offers its members a terrible choice: integration or democracyPoliticians will sacrifice anything to meet Brussels' requirements...
29.12.2018
Why are we allowing the state to put us on a diet?We are returning to food rationing....
23.12.2018
Blame Remainers for opening the door to a no-deal Brexit, but it may now be the least painful optionIf Britain leaves the EU with no deal, we shall have Gina Miller to thank....
