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....
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....
