18.01.2023
Harry unwittingly reminds us of how dangerous the hereditary principle can beWhat if the spoiled, petulant nitwit had somehow been next in line?...
16.01.2023
The Elgin Marbles belong to all humanity - which is why they should remain in LondonThe idea of collective ownership is illiberal, and should not trump property rights or free contract...
10.01.2023
Our least bad option now is to push for total Russian defeatAnything short of a Ukrainian victory is a Russian victory - which would be disastrous for the international order...
06.01.2023
Is it racist to ask where someone is really from?Yes - but for reasons that invalidate pretty much the entire BLM movement...
03.01.2023
2022 was the year that killed my rational optimismIt wasn't so much the lockdowns as the demand for the lockdowns that convinced me that illiberalism is coming...
30.12.2022
Why do Argentines celebrate a war where they were clearly the baddies?And why do Russians associate themselves with an unprovoked attack by a fascist dictatorship on a neighbouring democracy?...
27.12.2022
Christmas thoughts on deporting illegal immigrantsIt's easy to list the flaws in the Rwanda scheme; it's harder to come up with an alternative...
22.12.2022
The US is far from being “an extraordinarily racist country”Racism exists in most societies, but the US is unusual in promoting the individualism that is its antidote...
19.12.2022
Britain has lurched to the Left since the last Labour governmentThe banking crisis, social media, woke and the lockdowns have all moved the centre of gravity...
12.12.2022
Gordon Brown prescribes more of the medicine that sickened the patientBritain does need more devolution - but the way to get there is not through more quangos and salaried politicians...
09.12.2022
One rule for MPs, one for everyone elseBut in precisely the opposite way to what most people mean...
07.12.2022
When did everyone become anti-lockdown?The response to the China protests demonstrates what, deep down, we don't want to admit - it was all for nothing...
05.12.2022
Anti-Britishness is on the rise - especially in BritainClimate reparations, repatriation of museum artefacts, statue-smashing, separatism - all have the same root cause...
02.12.2022
What will a defeated Russia have to give up?Talk will eventually move on from reparations and war crimes trials to Karelia, Köningsberg and the Kuril Islands...
28.11.2022
Brexit is slipping awayWe missed our chance to join EFTA, and now we have no option but to diverge...
24.11.2022
The lunacy of climate reparationsFar from asking for compensation, poorer countries should be thanking richer ones for industrialisation...
14.11.2022
The Tories are out of optionsVoters don't believe the money has run out and, without an early election, nothing will convince them...
10.11.2022
There is no such thing as positive discriminationThose US colleges that admit on the basis of race are doing exactly what 1930s fascist regimes did...
07.11.2022
The preposterous myth of libertarian BritainTaxes and spending are higher then ever, and free-market think tanks have never been weaker...
04.11.2022
The Right’s indifference to the first non-white PM has sent Leftists into meltdownBritish "anti-racists" keep trying to import the story of the American civil rights struggle ...
01.11.2022
No more Tory democracyThe Conservative Party's leadership election rules make the system used to select the Dalai Lama look rational...
27.10.2022
Liz Truss was a victim of the lockdownsAfter Covid, everyone wants subsidies and no one cares about how to pay for them...
23.10.2022
This can’t go onWhoever wins, the case for an early election will become irresistible ...
20.10.2022
Civil wars begin more easily than you thinkThe exhumation of José Antonio Primo de Rivera reminds Spain of some unpleasant truths...
17.10.2022
Better to go down fightingIf Conservative MPs are not prepared to cut taxes and spending, they might as well hand over to Labour...
14.10.2022
We know what is needed - but do we have the courage to do it?There is no way that the spending increases brought in after Covid can become permanent...
11.10.2022
This was never really about trans peopleWhat we're seeing is an attempt to deny biological gender completely - Blank Slatery as a religion ...
09.10.2022
The cowardice of the anti-Truss rebelsIt is somehow considered unacceptably Right-wing to return to Blair's tax rates...
06.10.2022
Trickle-down - the parody that people came to believeNo one has ever argued that you enrich the poor by enriching the rich - it's a Leftist invention...
04.10.2022
Why free markets are always unpopularOur palaeolithic instincts incline us to egalitarianism, authoritarianism and envy ...
01.10.2022
Liz Truss mustn’t back downThe budget is brave and right, however unpopular in the short term...
01.10.2022
Sunak is almost out of optionsBut here are five things he could realistically do before the election...
29.09.2022
You really think this is about a tiny tax cut?There was always going to be a reckoning after all the money-printing; cutting taxes will at least help...
25.09.2022
Best. Budget. Ever.It feels as if the Conservatives are back after 23 years in Opposition...
22.09.2022
Maybe the US could use a monarchy after allA constitutional monarchy is designed to stop the personality cults that Putin enjoys and Trump longs for...
19.09.2022
Cap bankers’ bonuses or grow the economy - pick oneThe cap was imposed by the EU in an openly anti-London move, yet it has taken us until now to scrap it...
15.09.2022
We vote for instant gratification, then complain about the resultTechnological change means that we all now fail the marshmallow test...
13.09.2022
Exalting and ennobling our democracyCharless III's address to peers and MPs wasn't just pomp; it was a reminder of how our constitution works...
11.09.2022
The case for constitutional monarchyAn umpire whose legitimacy is beyond question is the surest defence against civil war...
08.09.2022
Putin’s plan to seize MoldovaUsing gas to topple the little republic's pro-Western government would leave Odessa squeezed between two Russian armies...
05.09.2022
Spending cuts can’t be put off until the electionA Centre-Right party can win during a downturn - but only if it has visibly started to fix the problem...
02.09.2022
Yes, Dugina deserves justiceAnd so do all the other thousands of civilian victims of Putin's unprovoked war...
29.08.2022
We really are back to the 1970s - even the Tories are promoting big governmentBut might they be about to pick a market-oriented woman to lead them in a different direction?...
25.08.2022
Seven things you should know about Britain’s next PMThe parallels with Margaret Thatcher may not be the joke that commentators think...
22.08.2022
The GOP is becoming un-AmericanI get (though I dislike) the cult of the successful leader, but they are now embracing the cult of the unsuccessful leader...
19.08.2022
Identity politics leads to unspeakable horrorsIndian and Pakistani immigrants to Britain were able to put the communal violence behind them by choosing individualism...
16.08.2022
Trumpism is rotting the Republican PartyCalling for the FBI to be defunded or disbanded is a new low from the supposed law and order party...
14.08.2022
These are the consequences of the lockdown that you all backedThe people who demanded the longest and harshest restrictions now have the nerve to complain about inflation...
11.08.2022
Sanctions don’t workLet's not kid ourselves - the only thing that will stop Putin is defeat on the battlefield...
08.08.2022
We took a decision to abandon cheap energy - and now we’re mad as hellThe falling cost of energy is what made modern civilisation; but our leaders are in hoc to Green ideologues...
05.08.2022
Food nationalism - always popular, never rightA prolonged leadership race is terrible for rational policy making...
02.08.2022
David Timble’s death marked the end of an eraHe oversaw the end of Unionist dominance - but don't make the mistake of thinking that Irish annexation will follow...
31.07.2022
More of the same is not enoughThe cheap-money, high-spending consensus has brought us to the brink. We need radical reform...
28.07.2022
The wrong kind of minoritiesThe Conservative leadership election has sent some woke Leftists round the twist...
25.07.2022
You can’t handle the truthVoters rate honesty as their top virtue in leaders, but it is far from clear that they truly want to hear how bad things are...
22.07.2022
Never use these rules againThey encourage dirty tricks and gamesmanship, set MPs against activists and ensure that the winner makes enemies along the way...
19.07.2022
America is turning to tribalismThe republic is defaulting to the older ethics of kin, vendetta and bloodguilt...
17.07.2022
My pick for Tory leaderOK, different Tory party, different leadership race - but why can't we have a candidate like Pierre Poilievre?...
11.07.2022
Eleven things the next Conservative leader must doEurophiles who have convinced themselves that ousting Boris means a swing to the Centre are in for a shock...
08.07.2022
We didn’t leave the EU to embrace even more protectionismThere is no case whatever for steel tariffs in the UK, and ministers know it...
06.07.2022
Britain imports yet another American culture warRoe vs Wade has precisely zero relevance for the UK, though you'd never imagine it from the headlines...
03.07.2022
The bizarre attempt to rebrand Scotland and Ireland as coloniesIn an age that elevates victimhood above all else, the old appeal of the UK - that it was strong - has vanished...
01.07.2022
How does an incumbent government get re-elected in this climate?Colombia was the regional success story, but has just voted for the policies that are wrecking its neighbours...
28.06.2022
The Tories are spending their way to defeatA Centre-Right party that measures itself by how much it is spending loses its appeal...
25.06.2022
What if Boris had become PM in 2016?Consider the counterfactual - a swifter but softer Brexit, public sector reform, Michael Gove as the CEO...
23.06.2022
Will genetics now be deplatformed?Because racists like the idea of inherited group differences, some want to deplatform ANY studies of heritable traits...
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...
