27.09.2024
My choice for Tory leaderRemember that we are picking a Leader of the Opposition and not (yet) a PM...
25.09.2024
Keep the hereditary peersAt least until you have something better to put in their place...
23.09.2024
We’re going to hell in a handcartLabour isn't engaging in cynical economic populism, it genuinely believes this rubbish...
21.09.2024
Labour’s abject approach to the EUBritain's proposed concessions are being treated as requests...
17.09.2024
How the British state persecuted EuroscepticsAlan Halsall was hounded for four years by a politicised Electoral Commission...
15.09.2024
Starmer’s got some nerveHe firehoses money at the unions, and we're supposed to blame the Tories...
13.09.2024
The Cold War isn’t over; it isn’t even coldFrom Nicaragua to Syria, old alliances still hold...
11.09.2024
Ukraine can still winThe Kursk offensive is all about changing attitudes in Russia to the cost of the war...
09.09.2024
Don’t sulk about Kamala - dump TrumpIt's not "a coup" to dump an unelectable candidate; Republicans should try it...
05.09.2024
Law-and-order conservatives versus authoritarian radicalsMobs are fickle, stupid, dangerous and cruel; no conservative should ever make excuses for them...
03.09.2024
Why are Lefties embarrassed about our flag?In what country, down the centuries, would they rather have been poor, or female, or from a religious minority?...
01.09.2024
Never excuse riots - everIf Lefties now glory in crackdowns, good - conservatives have no business opposing them...
29.08.2024
Two-Tier KeirLet's hope the new crackdown signals a more general readiness to punish disorder...
20.08.2024
Don’t restore the winter allowanceForget that it's Labour, and forget that it's a broken promise. It cannot be right to keep paying unconditional benefits...
17.08.2024
Only regime change can save VenezuelaAre we going to let autocracy claim country after country?...
14.08.2024
Labour declares war on free speechStarmer's first act was to scrap the law protecting free speech on campus...
11.08.2024
We are reaching the point where tax can’t rise any moreLabour is about to relearn some basic economics lessons...
08.08.2024
America is now literally governed by DEILefties openly admit that Kamala is a diversity hire, but get furious when anyone else says so...
05.08.2024
However you vote, the Blob winsThe Tories tried, however ineffectually, to restrain their woke civil servants, but that's all over now...
30.07.2024
Elegy for the Grand Old PartyThe Republican Party had a great run before being displaced by this monstrosity...
26.07.2024
Did smartphones kill democracy?Our screen-addled age is impatient, infantile and prone to conspiracy theories...
24.07.2024
The lie at the heart of Labour’s EU policyIt was Brussels vindictiveness, not British stand-offishness, that prevented closer economic ties...
20.07.2024
Sir Humphrey’s final victoryThe Tories were doomed by their inability to get things past the standing bureaucracy...
16.07.2024
We don’t care about the consequencesRage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years...
14.07.2024
American democracy can’t take much moreThe Supreme Court, notionally the referee, is now wholly divided along party lines...
12.07.2024
Reversing BrexitAhead in the polls, Labour no longer has to disguise its Euro-zealotry...
10.07.2024
Three and a half centuries of Toryism are overIt seems a tad disproportionate, but there we are...
08.07.2024
No one mention the lockdowns!We rage at the politicians who carried out precisely what we demanded ...
06.07.2024
Don’t worry about AIAll new technologies are decried as job-destroyers, but it is never true...
04.07.2024
Vote Conservative!Those who claim that the main parties are all the same are in for one hell of a shock...
30.06.2024
Is Nigel Farage our Donald Trump?Followers are expected constantly to readjust their opinions to suit their leader, while pouring invective at everyone else...
28.06.2024
One party rule, here we comeNever before will we have had so lopsided a House of Commons...
26.06.2024
The self-harming electionVoters cannot punish the Tories without, in the process, punishing Britain...
24.06.2024
Lockdown omertàHalf the world is voting right now, but no country is talking about the single biggest issue...
20.06.2024
Creepy Keir StarmerIn saying that he would let a loved one suffer rather than use private medicine, the Labour leader has revealed how he thinks...
18.06.2024
What killed the Tories?Nigel Farage, more than any other campaigner, grasps how screen addiction has changed our politics...
16.06.2024
Europhile cognitive dissidenceWait, the EU is swinging to the hard Right and Britain is turning Left? How does the New York Times explain this to its readers?...
14.06.2024
We know we’ll regret it, but we’ll still put Labour inThe things that are upsetting us - high immigration, wasted taxes, unresponsive public services - will all get worse...
12.06.2024
Trump will end up joining Pacific trade pactCPTPP is the most effective way to contain China's ambitions...
08.06.2024
The cynicism of D-DayWe moved in one generation from "The Longest Day" to "Saving Private Ryan"...
06.06.2024
A court with a mission is a menace, a supreme court with a mission is a tyrannyWhen international judges issue arrest warrants for elected PMs, we have crossed a line...
04.06.2024
Can the Conservatives hold together?The end of the Cold War means that the old Tory/Whig alloy is separating into its two constituent elements...
02.06.2024
Britain is a liberal outlier in fortress EuropeNeither side would have predicted it in 2016, but the UK is unique in not voting for the authoritarian Right...
30.05.2024
The woker, the worsePublic sector productivity has collapsed as identity politics has grown...
28.05.2024
When did the world start going backwards?Was it the financial crisis, mass immigration, screen addiction or something else?...
26.05.2024
What if the students waved St George’s Crosses instead of PLO flags?We have come, tragically, to take the uneven application of the rules for granted...
24.05.2024
When the fall is all there is, it mattersIf Rishi Sunak must go down, it will be on his own terms, as a patriot who did his best...
22.05.2024
After this, the UN has no place in GazaWhoever takes over the territory, there needs to be a policy of re-education, and that cannot happen through UNRWA...
18.05.2024
Welcome to tribal BritainThe rise of sectarian voting signals the end of a liberal society...
16.05.2024
Ireland should join the Rwanda schemeBut it won't, because its leaders will always co-operate with the EU rather than Britain, whatever the cost...
14.05.2024
The revolution will be cateredCampus radicalism is nothing new, but this self-absorbed whining can only have come from the smartphone generation...
12.05.2024
The WHO takeoverIf the global health technocrats get their way, no future Sweden will challenge the authoritarian consensus...
10.05.2024
Rwanda is an ideal destination30 years after the worst genocide of the late 20th century, the country is booming...
08.05.2024
The SNP is in freefallBut Scottish separatism is not dependent on the fortunes of the separatist party...
06.05.2024
The Tories are now blamed for Labour’s policiesLabour's determined resistance to the Rwanda scheme comes across to most voters as Tory dithering...
04.05.2024
Revenge is by definition pointlessIt cannot right whatever wrong you have suffered, though it seems to be hardwired into our genome...
02.05.2024
Who could object to Reform?When it comes to their aspirations, no one. When it comes to implementing them, on the other hand...
26.04.2024
Don’t ban TikTokIt's a dreadful app, and the Chinese government is even more dreadful, but bans are never the answer...
23.04.2024
Time to quit the ECHRIn imposing climate change policy on Switzerland, the Strasbourg Court has taken judicial activism to a new level...
20.04.2024
Forever frenemiesDespite everything, Britain and France have been on the same side for the better part of two centuries...
17.04.2024
If any country is owed compensation, it is BritainThe industrial revolution, the extirpation of slavery, the defeat of Nazism. Do these things count for nothing?...
14.04.2024
Don’t change your rules at the demand of people who hate youFree association is the basis of a free society - and that includes the Garrick Club...
11.04.2024
No, the parties are not all as bad as each otherFor 14 years, we have examined the Conservatives' every flaw and blemish, but barely looked at Labour...
08.04.2024
Everything has gone wrong for the Tories since they toppled BorisEvery time MPs switch leaders without an election, voters feel taken for granted...
05.04.2024
The Republicans’ bad conscienceMike Pence stands for the principles and ethics that all Republicans used to extol. No wonder they hate him...
02.04.2024
Sorry, WASPI ladies, we’re out of cashThere are also moral arguments against the WASPI campaign, but they are beside the point when there is no money left...
30.03.2024
If the Rwanda scheme is blocked, we surrender to woke lawyersParliament could not have made its will clearer and, in our constitutional system, that is enough...
27.03.2024
The single biggest shift in US politicsNon-white voters are deserting the Dems in droves...
24.03.2024
Since lockdown, 500,000 people have been declared mentally unfit to workWhat lies behind the numbers? Long Lockdown, benefit fraud, or something else?...
21.03.2024
Why is Britain holding out against Europe’s populist tide?Portugal has joined the swing from old Left to insurgent Right. What makes Britain different?...
15.03.2024
The Church of England adopts a new Trinity - Diversity, Equity, InclusionIts anti-historical posturing over slavery marks the birth of a new syncretic religion, intolerant and proselytising ...
12.03.2024
The ugly tradition of Leftist anti-SemitismWhat we are seeing now is not new, but part of a tradition stretching back to Karl Marx...
10.03.2024
Islam is not IslamismOne is a religion founded by Mohammed in 610, the other a political movement founded by Hassan al-Banna in 1928...
08.03.2024
A bolder budget than you might thinkAt a time when more than five million working-age adults are on benefits, cutting National Insurance makes work pay...
04.03.2024
Multiculturalism or democracy - pick oneFor Parliament to alter its procedures under threat of violence was a new low...
02.03.2024
Jobs are a cost, not a benefitIt is bizarre to romanticise the miners strike, as though keeping men in that brutalising work were an end in itself...
28.02.2024
More elderly leaders, please!Spare us from young thrusters with high testosterone and things to prove...
26.02.2024
Russia is an organised crime gang with a state attachedPutin will carry on dealing death at home and abroad until he is stopped...
24.02.2024
Everyone hates the ConservativesThe country is in a Left-wing mood, and nothing short of a full economic crisis will shift it...
22.02.2024
The Kremlin is right to sanction meAs long as Russia remains an imperial, Eurasian state, it will be a threat to liberty...
20.02.2024
And after Trump?Despite everything, there are encouraging signs that the Republicans still believe in free enterprise...
17.02.2024
How Labour will bankrupt BritainYou think Starmer is dull, sensible and moderately Blairite? Think again...
14.02.2024
Much ado about ruttingJudi Dench's libidinous take on Shakespeare, reviewed for the Oldie magazine...
11.02.2024
Is “settler colonialism” really a white thing?West Papua, Iraqi Kurdistan, Western Sahara, Matabeleland, Chittagong Hills, Xinjiang - no whites involved...
