29.04.2026
King Charles, meet King DonaldAmerican presidents have always enjoyed powers of which George III could only dream...
26.04.2026
Pink-haired StalinistsThe Greens, like all Utopians, would have to liquidate those who refuse to fit in...
23.04.2026
What if he has lost his mind?Any other president would have been removed by now on grounds of incapacity...
20.04.2026
Starmer’s abject surrender to BrusselsHe is giving the EU everything it wanted and paying for the privilege...
14.04.2026
Freedom of worship must apply across the boardLike Mr Brooke in Middlemarch, I am prepared to be persecuted for not persecuting - not persecuting, you know...
11.04.2026
Punish shoplifters properlyDesecrating a shop is a shameful act, and perpetrators should be made to feel it...
08.04.2026
Hit back at the slavery shakedown artistsTo demand reparations from Britain, which stamped out the trade, is not just ill-mannered; it is hostile...
05.04.2026
We have given up on religious freedomEither it exists or it doesn't; you can't have a special carve-out for Muslims...
02.04.2026
Force yourself to rememberSix years on, the lockdowns are still the chief fact of our lives...
30.03.2026
America is losingIt has failed to dislodge the ayatollahs, wasted resources, enriched Russia and emboldened China...
22.03.2026
Iran started this warCountries on five continents have been on the receiving end of Iranian-backed terrorism...
18.03.2026
Balkanised BritainWe are becoming a series of antagonistic tribes with overlapping territories...
14.03.2026
The rise of British IslamogauchismeThese Red-Green alliances never work out for the Reds...
10.03.2026
Rule by human rights lawyers is oddly inhumanStarmer allows the diktats of international law to override decency, common sense and the national interest...
07.03.2026
Britain is like a police state run by Inspector ClouseauOr, if you prefer, Brezhnev as interpreted by David Brent...
04.03.2026
Ed Miliband is bankrupting BritainThe saturnine energy secretary is making us colder and poorer while the rest of the world ditches net zero...
01.03.2026
Why do Brits care more than Americans about Epstein?Could it be that people hold back when they think that a politician on their side might be harmed...
26.02.2026
Starmer is a hostage of the Labour LeftWe have, in practice, the thing we voted against in 2015: a Miliband government...
23.02.2026
Labour MPs have doomed themselvesLike the Ancient Mariner's crewmates, they have made themselves accomplices in the crime...
20.02.2026
The kids are alt-rightWhat explains the sudden popularity of fascist-adjacent ideologies among young men? Simple...
17.02.2026
Post-Brexit cowardiceWe have used our Brexit freedoms to pursue more regulation, higher taxes and more restrictive trade...
14.02.2026
Who are the goodies now?Venezuela will tell us whether the US remains a moral force, of whether it is just one more Putinite bully...
11.02.2026
Britain should celebrate the American RevolutionIt was based on British exceptionalism...
08.02.2026
We are governed by Eloi in a world of MorlocksBritain alone is still tearing around looking for international courts to surrender to...
05.02.2026
Americans! Here is why the Chagos deal matters to y’all!Who cares about Greenland next to Diego Garcia?...
02.02.2026
Where next for MAGA?In picking a needless overseas fight, Trump found the one issue where his base would not follow...
28.01.2026
How republics endThe US Congress, like the Roman Senate, is too servile to halt an autocrat...
26.01.2026
Will Farage unite the Right?The next few weeks will determine the relationship between Reform and the Conservatives...
24.01.2026
One man has destroyed the WestAre Americans indifferent, or are they too scared to speak out?...
22.01.2026
Starmer moves towards banning XNothing to do with bikinis, he just can't take the criticism...
20.01.2026
Reversing the most pernicious revolution of our lifetimesFew things will improve the world more unambiguously than undoing the 1979 Iranian Revolution...
18.01.2026
Trump goes full CorleoneHis threats against Nato suggest that he is either mad or a Russian asset...
16.01.2026
Was Thatcherism a dead cat bounce?A blip in Britain's long-term decline, like Justinian's brief reoccupation of Rome?...
12.01.2026
The ECHR is daring us to leaveIf it backs Shamima Begum, it will turn the public implacably against membership...
08.01.2026
This is the endThe Abd El-Fattah case shows that the British state machine is broken beyond repair...
06.01.2026
2026 is going to be terribleI used to be a Rational Optimist until the lockdowns knocked it out of me...
04.01.2026
This is even worse than rejoining the EUWe are taking all the worst bits of EU membership and leaving all the good bits ...
30.12.2025
Americans should steer clear of European ethno-nationalistsAfter 1945 the European Right copied America; now it is the other way around...
28.12.2025
Claiming asylum from WHERE?When foreign criminals are claiming asylum from desirable holiday destinations, something has gone badly wrong...
26.12.2025
The worst idea in politicsThere are arguments (though I don't buy them) for joining the EU; there are no arguments for a customs union...
24.12.2025
Trumpism makes America more vulnerableJunking old alliances and burning decades of accumulated trust is rarely a sensible strategy...
20.12.2025
If you want juries replaced by judges, I have two words for you: Lucy ConnollyJuries domesticate our legal system, making it the property of the people, not their rulers...
18.12.2025
Not all immigrants are equalWhat happens when a welfare system designed for Swedes is applied to Somalis...
16.12.2025
Labour is finished. Is Britain?Taxing work to pay for benefits can only end in one thing...
12.12.2025
The big Brexit benefitThe chief advantages are negative, in the sense of being able to stand aside from terrible EU policies...
10.12.2025
End of the Western allianceTrump is imposing a Munich type settlement on Ukraine, and the result will be similar...
08.12.2025
Discredited Covid InquiryThe dimwits running it have spent £200 million only to repeat established errors...
06.12.2025
Britain’s most shameful dayAbandoning the Chagossians is the most shameful thing we have done since - well, since transplanting them...
04.12.2025
Trump is a godsend for the BBCThe president's lawsuit is a distraction from the problem of structural bias...
02.12.2025
We don’t seem to want democracyWe moan about woke police, but we ignored the mechanism designed to align their priorities with ours...
28.11.2025
Nick Fuentes and the descent of the American RightAnd what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?...
26.11.2025
Axe the licence feeIn the age of YouTube and Netflix, it is not so much anachronistic as absurd...
24.11.2025
The Whig History of AustraliaMy review of Tony Abbott's new book in Quadrant Magazine...
22.11.2025
Your £1,277,580 tax billImagine if you kept most of that money and provided for your own healthcare and pension...
20.11.2025
America embraces monarchical ruleGeorge III never had, and never wanted, the right to levy taxes without Parliament...
18.11.2025
Not fit for purposeOpen borders, absconding prisoners, failing courts - always the same department...
14.11.2025
The Trump vibe shift reaches the UKSince the murder of Charlie Kirk, the Right has given up on free speech...
12.11.2025
Dogs bark, ducks quack, Labour raises taxesThe worst kind of taxes, too - taxes on employment and investment...
10.11.2025
The US prepares to attack VenezuelaIt won't be a land invasion, but it will be enough to topple Maduro...
08.11.2025
The Oxford Union is a symbol of Britain’s declineOnce the chief exemplar of free debate, it has descended into wokery and ethnic voting...
04.11.2025
Our approach to China is 180 degrees the wrong way aroundWe should be tougher on everything EXCEPT trade...
02.11.2025
Labour reaches the scorched earth phaseThey know they will lose the next election, and that someone else will have to clean up the mess...
30.10.2025
Iceland! Say no to the EU!The issue was dead in that happy little country before Trump began to threaten Greenland...
28.10.2025
The adults in the roomThe Tories are alone in levelling with voters about what needs to happen...
26.10.2025
Britain is the only country hated by its own leadersNowhere else in the world is it transgressive to fly your national flag...
24.10.2025
Imagine a capitalist GazaIf Donald Trump can pull this off, I'll be prepared to forgive a great many things...
22.10.2025
Fiscal responsibility is the last card the Tories have to playIt may not be enough, but it is the only workable strategy they have...
20.10.2025
Anti-Semitism comes to BritainWe used to be the best country in Europe to be Jewish - until now...
18.10.2025
Even Trump doesn’t really think tariffs workIf he did, he would not be suggesting free trade as a way to rebuild Gaza...
14.10.2025
The way to tackle illegal immigrationKeir Starmer talks tough, but won't tackle the real problem, namely a politicised judiciary...
12.10.2025
ID cards open the path to authoritarianismYou don't think we could have a Chinese-style police state? You have forgotten lockdown...
08.10.2025
Defections make us unbearably tribalWhen you've finished killing Kruger with your mouth...
04.10.2025
DEI is killing OxfordAn altered electorate has seen the Oxford Union forget its old values...
02.10.2025
Have tariffs ended the special relationship?For all Trump's Anglophilia, the two great English-speaking democracies are drifting apart...
30.09.2025
Labour is about to swing even further LeftIncredibly, Starmer's internal critics think the problem is that he is not spending enough...
26.09.2025
On the brinkThe reactions to the horrific assassination revealed a nation teetering on the edge of breakdown...
22.09.2025
When did Britain turn against free speech?It has less to do with any specific law than with the culture of public bodies...
20.09.2025
To conserve or to reform?The two Rightist parties are closer on policy than either will admit, but far apart on mood, texture, vibe...
18.09.2025
Putin is at war with the entire Western orderHe hates the British, in particular, not for what they do, but for who they are...
