20.06.2022
The ECHR has served its purposeBritain does not have a human rights deficit; but it does have a democratic deficit...
18.06.2022
Why are Eurocrats complaining about proposals that offer them no threat?Because they are not really worried about the single market - what they want is to punish Britain for Brexit...
16.06.2022
Britain sees race relations through the distorting glass of American segregationWhite conservatives are dismissed as Klansmen, black conservatives as Uncle Toms - but what have these terms got to do with us?...
13.06.2022
Can Boris pull it back?Maybe - but he needs to understand the anger about our spending levels...
09.06.2022
What if America had kept the monarchy?The Queen's Jubilee reminded us of the value of having a neutral but unquestioned referee...
05.06.2022
We missed our chance to stay in the single marketJoining EFTA would have eased the transition and soothed our culture war, but the moment has now passed...
02.06.2022
The aftermath of an atrocity is the worst time to decide policyLots of factors contribute to the grisly uniqueness of the US on school shootings, of which gun laws are only one...
31.05.2022
The Conservatives have given up on conservatismTory ministers now positively boast about spending more than Labour...
27.05.2022
The Northern Ireland Protocol is SUPPOSED to hurtIt wasn't designed to keep British sausages out of Co Cavan, it was designed to punish us for Brexit...
25.05.2022
How I invented Brexit at OxfordSimon Kuper's new book claims that Brexit was cooked up in late 1980s Oxford, and he's got half a point....
22.05.2022
Katharine Birbalsingh has taught the country the secret of good educationIt is poor teaching, rather than poverty, that holds students back...
19.05.2022
So what if male and female brains are different?Certain truths are considered uncontroversial by neuroscientists but unspeakable by politicians...
16.05.2022
Are Britain and the EU allies?It is striking to hear Eurocrats urge compromise with Russia while insisting that there must be no compromise with the UK...
13.05.2022
Sinn Féin’s victory makes a united Ireland less likelyPlenty of Irish Catholics dislike the idea of being governed by a party connected to organised crime...
12.05.2022
No conscientious government could keep the Northern Ireland ProtocolThe EU is interpreting the rules in a deliberately vindictive way, undermining peace in the Province...
08.05.2022
Time to govern as a Conservative, BorisOur economy is about to take a hammering, and spending money is no way to soften the blow...
05.05.2022
Who will get the blame for our immiseration?Some will blame the war or the pandemic for the cost of living crisis, others their governments...
03.05.2022
The recovery won’t begin until civil servants start workingThe private sector has largely returned to the office, but the public sector has no intention of following...
29.04.2022
Britain is defined by the rule of lawTo claim otherwise on the basis of disagreements over asylum or parties is trivial and insulting...
27.04.2022
The West is friendlessAnglosphere states and their allies can win wars, but few share their values...
24.04.2022
No, the PM did not deliberately mislead MPsIt never occurred to Boris - or anyone else at the time - that being presented with a cake between meetings was a party...
21.04.2022
It’s one rule for Boris and one for everyone else - but not the way people meanOverseas observers are incredulous that there are moves to bring down the PM over cake...
18.04.2022
The nuclear taboo is holdingFirst use of nuclear weapons is seen, not just as immoral, but as unthinkable...
14.04.2022
Why Poles have risen to the Ukrainian challengeFew countries have suffered more at the hands of occupiers, and few better understand the value of sovereignty...
11.04.2022
The real reason Russia is losingThe behaviour of the FSB in the run-up to the invasion explains why autocracies are bad at warfare...
06.04.2022
One month to scrap the Northern Ireland ProtocolIt was always intended to be transitional, and the consequences of leaving it in place are dire...
01.04.2022
War is inherently collectivistOur individual vices and virtues are dissolved into national blocs - more's the pity...
29.03.2022
Is nuclear escalation inevitable?A gun that appears on stage in Act One, wrote Chekhov, will be fired by the end of Act Three...
26.03.2022
The Tories’ double whammy: more taxes, higher pricesWill voters blame the Conservatives or the international situation for the coming recession?...
21.03.2022
Why do self-proclaimed American nationalists back Putin?The far Left will back any anti-American dictator; but the sympathy among Trumpists is far more unsettling...
18.03.2022
Is it racist to feel close to Ukraine?We are bound to be more attached to familiar cultures - something that only the West is meant to feel guilty about...
16.03.2022
We’re all going to be a lot poorerIts not just the inflation - it's the cretinous retreat into "self-sufficiency"...
13.03.2022
Poles, of all people, know the value of national independenceTheir quarrel with Brussels is a bonsai version of Ukraine's struggle for sovereignty...
09.03.2022
Ukraine has made nationalism acceptableMany Western observers understand, for the first time, why being independent matters...
06.03.2022
Europhiles hate that Britain is doing the right thingBlinded by their loathing of Brexit, many commentators are pushing the line that Britain has been softer than the EU on Russia...
04.03.2022
We overestimated PutinHis unforced errors have undermined him, and a Kremlin coup is no longer unthinkable...
01.03.2022
Travel restrictions are starting to look permanentThey serve no purpose but, like the bans on shoes and liquids, they will prove impossible to scrap...
26.02.2022
Civilisation is in retreatThe international order that rested on democracy is giving way to a world of armed camps...
22.02.2022
What does Russia want?His chief aim is to keep his people in a state of scared, wounded patriotism. It's not victory he wants. It's permanent conflict...
19.02.2022
Dictatorship is terrifyingly easyWhat do the post-Soviet tyrants have in common? Courage? Ruthlessness? Charisma? No. They just happened to be in the right place...
15.02.2022
If the PM won’t seize the opportunities of Brexit, what is the point of him?We want the old Boris back - the rumbustious, Hogarthian, liberty-loving Boris...
11.02.2022
Ukraine explains why wars still happenLogically, the weaker party should concede at the outset, but Ukraine has good reasons to fight and lose...
07.02.2022
The day will come when no one remembers having backed the lockdownJust as every Frenchman over a certain age supported the Resistance, so every Briton will recall being a lockdown sceptic...
04.02.2022
Brexit has been squanderedFar from liberalising, the UK is adopting more regulations than it had to as an EU member...
02.02.2022
The PM remains Sir Toby in a world suddenly full of MalvoliosBoris Johnson was elected as a Cavalier, but the lockdown turned the rest of us into Roundheads...
30.01.2022
Most of our problems these days involve civil servantsBut we seem unable to get our heads around that fact, and so carry on blaming ministers...
27.01.2022
Britain is first out of the pandemicWhich, paradoxically, helps explain why the PM is in so much trouble...
24.01.2022
Boris did not lie to ParliamentDominic Cummings' accusation in fact exonerates him, if only we'd bother to read it...
21.01.2022
Meritocracy raised the West, identity politics will sink itChina is much more ruthless about appointing the best talent, which is why it is overtaking us...
18.01.2022
What we think of as reasoned opinions are usually rationalisations of our gut feelingsWe have an aesthetic objection to trophy hunting, but tell ourselves that it's about conservation...
16.01.2022
Boris defied the lockdowners - no wonder they’re out to get himReopening the economy matters much more than wandering into a garden party...
09.01.2022
What the hell happened to the Republican Party?We used to elevate process over outcome, the rules over the rulers. Not any more...
07.01.2022
There is no point in taking back powers if we don’t use themBrexit allows us to make different choices, but we seem determined to copy the EU from outside...
03.01.2022
Covid is now endemic, making almost all our restrictions pointlessWhy test travellers when the disease is everywhere? Why require masks when we'll all get it?...
29.12.2021
Lockdowners have cried wolf once too oftenFinally, after nearly two years, public opinion is swinging back toward freedom...
26.12.2021
Who would have done a better job than Boris?Obviously, Leftists and lockdowners loathe him. But why do libertarians?...
22.12.2021
Appeal to Unionists or be as distant as possible from Britain? Ireland has made its choiceAnd a perfectly legitimate choice it is - but it should come as no surprise that Northern iIreland is unimpressed...
19.12.2021
Boris! Say no to the lockdown nostalgics!Six reasons why the PM should ignore the clamour for more restrictions...
17.12.2021
No, these people were not like usThe British Museum's exhibition on pre-Columbian Peru is eerie and unsettling...
16.12.2021
One word has been completely excised from the lockdown debateNot "freedom" or "proportionality" or "vaccines" but "Sweden"...
13.12.2021
How servile we are - moaning about the flouting of rules rather than about their impositionWe used to pride ourselves on being a free country, but it seems we no longer care...
09.12.2021
Everything white is racistThat, pretty much, is the view taken by Tate Britain - and the rest of us keep putting up with it...
08.12.2021
What if Ukraine and Taiwan were invaded on the same day?The alternative to the Anglosphere hegemony is not some world in which other countries are left alone...
05.12.2021
The monomania of the woke should disqualify them from the conversation - but it does the oppositeOnce the USA had abandoned Jefferson's rationalism, his statue was bound to follow...
01.12.2021
In Peppa Pig World, no one would need to vote ConservativeBoris Johnson's critics are, as so often, wide of the mark...
27.11.2021
Brussels wants to teach Britain a lesson - even if it destabilises Northern IrelandWith a tiny modicum of goodwill, a solution could be found - but the EU has no interest in a win-win outcome...
22.11.2021
It’s not sleaze that is sinking the Tories - it’s profligacySleaze is always a symptom of a government's unpopularity, never a cause...
19.11.2021
Protectionism is really destructionismPoliticians on all sides know it, but they play to the imagined stupidity of the electorate...
16.11.2021
We have become a cowed, irrational, authoritarian peopleNever mind treating Covid like flu - we are going to start treating flu like Covid...
12.11.2021
We should want MPs to have second jobsIdeally, being an MP would BE someone's second job...
10.11.2021
The lockdowns made no difference to global temperaturesEco-extremists want to make us poorer and fewer - but the environmental impact would be negligible...
07.11.2021
Let’s have a really powerful external regulator for MPs - we can call it “the electorate”Formal monitoring has replaced a culture of conscience with a culture of compliance...
04.11.2021
Poland fights for her independenceThe question of whether EU law overrides the Polish constitution goes to the heart of the European project...
01.11.2021
Britain cannot give into French blackmailWill the EU uphold its own rules, or will it, like an unreformed trade union, take a "my member right or wrong" approach?...
29.10.2021
There is no money leftThe Conservatives are spending as if the past 18 months hadn't happened...
27.10.2021
Politics is becoming more violentPolitical assassinations are becoming more frequent, though the overall homicide rate is declining ...
24.10.2021
Eurocrats scorn all forms of sovereignty - except their ownThe primacy of European law is what turns the EU from an international association into a superstate...
21.10.2021
Screening Othello can get you cancelledWith unconscious imperialism, American Leftists insist that others see race relations through their eyes...
17.10.2021
The UK is where Ireland was in 1921 - though saying so drives a certain kind of republican bonkersIreland had signed a treaty under duress, and set about dismantling it...
15.10.2021
The Northern Ireland Protocol has revealed the utter smallness of our Europhiles"Yeah, well you signed it!" Seriously, guys, is that all you've got? ...
13.10.2021
Identity politics has been slow to reach Spain, where Columbus remains a heroIndigenous groups may revile his memory, but Spain celebrates the man who made theirs the world's second language...
09.10.2021
Should classical liberals abandon the Conservative Party?Margaret Thatcher was a liberal mahout on a conservative elephant. Libertarians are always the minority...
07.10.2021
Conservatives, look upon Canada, and trembleCanada, the first nation to embrace multiculturalism, now has a solidly woke electorate...
03.10.2021
Price fixing has never workedExcessive regulations drive up prices; the solution is not to regulate even more...
30.09.2021
Why Labour can’t winEven its supposedly moderate and centrist figures can't help lapsing into self-righteous wokery...
28.09.2021
Aukus will protect the French, though they won’t appreciate itWhen defending the peace of the world, you need reliable allies...
26.09.2021
The case for an Anglosphere free trade areaThe world depends, more than we like to admit, on the readiness of the English-speaking peoples to deploy proportionate force...
24.09.2021
End the travel restrictionsMeasures brought in in the early days of the pandemic make no sense when dealing with an endemic virus...
22.09.2021
France has long since stopped behaving like an allyEmmanuel Macron's reaction to the Aukus deal has vindicated the decision of the Anglosphere leaders...
20.09.2021
Will the world’s wokest leader be re-elected?Canadians are choosing between the politically correct nation created by Trudeau père and the older Canada of Juno Beach...
18.09.2021
The ethical case for tax cutsConservatives have abandoned the moral high ground in pursuit of popularity - and then lost popularity, too...
16.09.2021
Sir Lindsay Hoyle is right to insist on formal dress - more’s the pityI hate wearing ties but, as a conservative, I see why they should be required...
14.09.2021
Hannan’s First Law: No party is Eurosceptic in officeMichel Barnier is the latest politician to sing a very different tune on the campaign trail...
12.09.2021
Why do some parties oppose basic anti-fraud measures at elections?Labour supports vaccine passports but opposes voter ID...
10.09.2021
Shakespeare wasn’t blind to age, race or genderBizarre casting interposes the producer's ego between us and the action, ensuring we all get an obstructed view...
08.09.2021
Biden listened to the Taliban before he listened to BritainWith the United States withdrawing into her hemisphere, Britain must redefine her role...
06.09.2021
We’re all going to get Covid. The remaining restrictions are obsoleteThe vaccines prevent serious illness, not transmission. There is no longer an externality ...
04.09.2021
Higher taxes AND higher prices will put the Tories out of officeIf the government needs more revenue, it should try boosting competitiveness...
02.09.2021
A Britain obsessed with the evils of colonialism finds it harder to do the right thingPrestige is as hard a commodity in Afghanistan as cobalt or cardamom - and Britain's has just vanished...
