18.01.2019
Britain’s elite are no longer hiding their effort to overturn BrexitI owe my voters an apology. During the 2016 Brexit referendum...
14.01.2019
Donald Trump downgrades EU diplomats — good!The EU’s diplomats in Washington are fuming. It turns out that they have been quietly downgraded by the State Department....
07.01.2019
How immigration makes us all irrationalWhy would you risk your life to get out of France? I can think a few reasons not to want to live there...
01.01.2019
Why the whale has such emotional sway over us allWe look at whales with a degree of awe, almost veneration....
24.12.2018
How the Europhiles are blowing up BritainYou want to know what’s going on in British politics at the moment? ...
10.12.2018
How Macron became the populist without popularityEmmanuel Macron’s global (and globalist) admirers have suddenly gone very quiet....
26.11.2018
The US is making a huge error in backing this spoiled Saudi princelingWhen Mohammed bin Salman came to power in 2017, there was disquiet in Riyadh....
19.11.2018
Trump and nation-state versus Macron and supranationalismNo French politician ever lost votes by bashing the Americans....
12.11.2018
Racial categorization is making an unfortunate comebackRemember Rachel Dolezal, who had to resign as president of her local chapter of the NAACP when it turned out that she was white?...
29.10.2018
Don’t abandon lawful immigrationHere are three different ways to run an immigration regime. ...
22.10.2018
Falling IQ scores may explain why politics has turned so nastyI’ve worked out why we loathe each other so much ...
15.10.2018
US, Britain must arm for virtual wars if they want to preserve the world for freedomProminent Chinese citizens are disappearing at an alarming rate, sometimes in what look like clear cases of overseas rendition. ...
08.10.2018
‘The Satanic Verses,’ 30 years laterExactly 30 years ago, India became the first country to ban The Satanic Verses, a novel by the British-Indian author Salman Rush...
01.10.2018
If even Putin can’t fix pensions, who can?Russian President Vladimir Putin is losing elections....
17.09.2018
A US-UK deal will revolutionize world tradeLet’s take Donald Trump both seriously and literally. ...
03.09.2018
The republic will survive Trump, but will the Republicans?I gave Recep Tayyip Erdogan the benefit of the doubt for too long. ...
20.08.2018
Boris Johnson and the burqa“ Boris Johnson and the Burqa” has turned into Britain’s surprise summer blockbuster...
13.08.2018
Russian aggression keeps happening because it keeps workingExactly ten years ago, Russian forces crossed the Georgian border in anger. ...
06.08.2018
The soft bigotry of the New York TimesSarah Jeong is a journalist who was hired by the New York Times last week as an editorial writer. ...
30.07.2018
There’s a reason politics isn’t for optimistsGiven the circumstances of its founding, you’d think America would be an optimistic, forward-looking place. ...
23.07.2018
The Russians probably don’t have anything on Trump, and that’s the worst partShall I tell you the worst part of the Trump-Putin fiasco?...
09.07.2018
On bended knee, Britons praise their underperforming healthcare systemThirty years on, Lawson’s bon mot is starting to look a lot less metaphorical. ...
02.07.2018
The world’s eyes are still on WashingtonCritics of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan are despondent....
25.06.2018
Twitter is making cowards of us allThe worst thing is not the mob; it’s the cowardice that we display before the mob....
18.06.2018
Italy rebels against Europe’s dysfunctional immigration policyThe most immediate need of the disembarking boat people is for flip-flops, so that the ground doesn’t singe their feet....
11.06.2018
In the Trump era, Americans are warming to free tradeThe United States must, at long last, be treated fairly on Trade....
04.06.2018
The real story, and why Tommy Robinson belongs in prisonThe UK is in the grip of politically correct appeasers, if not outright Islamists. ...
28.05.2018
When it’s okay for leftists to mock your skin colorGammon has made a come-back in Britain. ...
21.05.2018
Why Israel is the second-most successful former British colonyIsrael isn’t just a better place to live than most neighboring states....
14.05.2018
Don’t look to Britain for arguments about gun controlLondon is suddenly beset with a knife crime problem. ...
07.05.2018
Scottish Nationalists are making their countrymen less independent by the dayAmerican friends are often surprised by how hectoring and statist the Scottish government is. ...
30.04.2018
The problem with ApuOur determination to take umbrage at innocuous things keeps finding new targets. ...
23.04.2018
Putin’s ‘useless idiots’As far as we know, Vladimir Lenin never used the phrase “useful idiots."...
16.04.2018
Spasms of rage over an imaginary gender pay gapIf American women earn 18.1 percent less than American men, as the OECD has just revealed, why does anyone employ men?...
09.04.2018
Trump’s tariffs are just tax hikes on American consumersWhy did congressional Republicans vote for a federal tax cut?...
26.03.2018
The distinction between opinion and incitement is under assaultWe don’t remember the near-misses....
19.03.2018
Putin will keep up his aggression until he encounters resistanceRussia has technically committed an act of war against the United Kingdom, and thus against NATO...
12.03.2018
Trump’s tariffs are America’s self-blockadeCould tariffs be the issue that finally separates Republicans from President Trump?...
05.03.2018
Why have Republicans stopped worrying about spending?Explain something to me, cousins. This federal deficit of yours — why have you all suddenly gone so quiet about it?...
26.02.2018
CPAC’s disastrous, misguided embrace of Marion Le PenHere’s a list of political stances that cluster together in several populist European parties....
19.02.2018
If you take offense at ‘Anglo-American,’ you probably aren’t very smartOne moment, a word is wholly unobjectionable, the next it makes the speaker a Nazi....
12.02.2018
In defense of George SorosGeorge Soros should spend his money however he likes. There, I’ve said it....
05.02.2018
The anti-Brexit cult’s end-of-the-world refuses to happenThe world will end this year, according to some Biblical extrapolations....
22.01.2018
What makes for a shithole?Here’s an awkward truth. It’s easier to attract talented people from shithole countries than from Norway....
15.01.2018
Racism in the realm beyond reasonIt’s not just that Markle shares the broadly liberal outlook of Hollywood, being keen on feminism and Noam Chomsky...
05.01.2018
Trump is lucky in his enemiesYou don’t convince people by insulting, bullying or threatening them. ...
18.12.2017
Capitalism is a win, even for the losersArtificial intelligence is transforming the workplace more profoundly than the industrial revolution did...
11.12.2017
Jerusalem, dividedThe status of Jerusalem isn’t part of the Israel-Palestine dispute. ...
04.12.2017
Stop apologizing to the loonsIt started with an apology on Twitter. And not just an apology....
27.11.2017
If you want to save the elephants, privatize themPETA, needless to say, does not look at lions in the way that local villagers do. ...
20.11.2017
Dan Hannan: The Republicans’ astonishing, Orwellian change of heart on PutinUntil recently, suspicion of Russia’s strongman was common to almost every Republican...
06.11.2017
From Martin Luther to the American RevolutionThe religious conflicts that followed Martin Luther’s break with Rome seem to belong to a different universe....
23.10.2017
The real point of ‘fake news’Who is falling for the laughable disinformation beamed out every hour by RT, Vladimir Putin's TV station?...
16.10.2017
How to anger a feminist: Criticize Harvey Weinstein the wrong wayIt's not enough, apparently, to condemn Harvey Weinstein as a priapic creep. ...
09.10.2017
Why the EU can never accept an independent CataloniaSuch is the terrifying gravitational power of the European Union that it has pulled even Nigel Farage into its orbit....
02.10.2017
The latest US move on planes is a train-wreckThe decision to slap 220 percent tariffs on imported aircraft is so wrongheaded, so unjust......
26.09.2017
Let’s hear it for nationalismIt is hard to convey quite how badly Donald Trump's speech to the United Nations was received in Brussels....
18.09.2017
Trump’s anti-Amazon LuddismAmazon is doing great damage to tax paying retailers. Towns, cities and states throughout the U.S. are being hurt ...
11.09.2017
Can anything now stop North Korea?We have tried carrots and sticks, aid and sanctions, engagement and isolation. Nothing seems to work....
04.09.2017
Moral equivalence between fascists and antifa? AbsolutelyFootage emerged last week of masked ruffians beating a man as he writhed on the ground at Berkeley's campus...
08.08.2017
Brits need to get over their beef with US meatI eat steak whenever I'm in the United States. Your steaks are bigger, juicier, and more tender than those I can buy in Europe....
31.07.2017
Obamacare is here to stayIf the Republicans can't scrap Obamacare, what is the point of them?...
25.07.2017
US should stop coddling the Saudis on QatarWhen Qatar was accused of sponsoring jihadi violence, people around the world drew back instinctively....
10.07.2017
In Venezuela, the destructive force of socialism is at workWhere have all the Chavistas gone?...
05.07.2017
Punch a Nazi, shoot a Republican — how far you want to take it is a matter of tasteThere's a bellicose undertone in a lot of Leftist rhetoric these days. ...
26.06.2017
The death of a matador will, paradoxically, make bullfighting more popularIván Fandiño preferred to let his cape do the talking....
19.06.2017
Pro-life, pro-Brexit, pro-UK: How Northern Ireland’s DUP became the enemy of the LeftThe permanently affronted Left has a new target. Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)...
06.06.2017
Good globalization and bad globalizationIf I say the word "globalization," what images come to your mind?...
29.05.2017
There’s no such thing as total security from terrorismThere's no such thing as total security from terrorism...
22.05.2017
Eurocrats resent the spread of the English languageNever before has the world had a common language. ...
02.05.2017
Conservatives International launches next month in Miami. Join us!When I was growing up in Lima in the 1970s, Western visitors were astonished by the shantytowns, the barriadas......
25.04.2017
Theresa May is about to become the most powerful leader in EuropeI suppose the Margaret Thatcher comparisons are inevitable. Britain has had only one other female prime minister...
18.04.2017
Trump backs NATO. Your play, EuropeBetween the election and the inauguration, when Donald Trump was still praising Vladimir Putin as "very smart,"...
10.04.2017
Spain’s colonialism in GibraltarWhy would you want to annex a territory whose population rejects you? It's a question that should be asked more often....
03.04.2017
Cheer up! Brexit is an incredible opportunity!"We are leaving the European Union," said Theresa May in her letter to Donald Tusk, formally activating the withdrawal process. ...
27.03.2017
The real danger to democracyI'm ashamed to say that I can't remember whether or not I met PC Keith Palmer, the policeman murdered by Khalid Masood......
20.03.2017
Partisanship isn’t a crime; it’s a blunderTry one of the following sentences. "President Trump has made some excellent appointments, but ......
13.03.2017
Why Scotland won’t secedeNicola Sturgeon, described the referendum as a "once in a generation" event....
06.03.2017
Famines are caused by awful governments — so stop giving those awful governments money"Famine in South Sudan." When I was growing up in the 1970s, it would have been an unremarkable headline....
27.02.2017
Eight reasons for optimism in the Trump eraI said some hard things about President Trump during the primaries, and I'm sure I will again....
20.02.2017
Israel needs a two-state solutionOne of the odder features of human nature, behavioral psychologists observe, is that we judge an idea as much by its proponents ...
14.02.2017
The Left is collapsing everywhereHere's a startling fact: There have been eight leaders of the British Labour Party in the past 40 years. Seven of them failed to...
07.02.2017
America really is a threat to the EU — but not in the way Eurocrats think"Shame! Shame! Shame on you!" yelled the crowd, waving their placards and shaking their dreadlocks as we walked past....
30.01.2017
The Left loves fake news"Post-truth politics," "alternative facts," "fake news": how disdainfully the phrases drop from leftist lips. As the liberal wri...
23.01.2017
The Swiss have found the secret of democratic happinessDelegates to the World Economic Forum felt under siege this year. Elections keep going against their vision of a borderless worl...
16.01.2017
Trump’s protectionism will hurt working peopleOf all the ideas associated with the incoming president's economic policy, the oddest is that his hostility to free trade is som...
09.01.2017
Why you can’t reason with PutinYou'd think no one had tried to work with Russian President Vladimir Putin before. Every time President-elect Trump sides with ...
19.12.2016
The Bond villain libertarians of GuatemalaIt's like some fevered left-wing conspiracy theory come to life. Hidden away in Guatemala, surrounded by tall jungle trees, is a...
12.12.2016
The writing is on the wallThe EU is breaking records for unpopularity. Its leaders have been rebuffed in referendums in the U.K. and Italy...
05.12.2016
Why Brexit should work out for everyoneLet's suppose that the European Union always acted in its rational self-interest. (I know, I know, but humor me.) How would it r...
