14.09.2023
We need SOME non-local candidatesA House of Commons composed almost wholly of local councillors will refuse to build anything...
11.09.2023
To the Left of Genghis KhanThe idea that genocide makes you Right-wing is an extraordinarily revealing one...
08.09.2023
The lockdowns killed more than they savedYou can't interpret the data in any other way. It was the greatest policy failure of the century...
05.09.2023
Why is a Tory government funding anti-Tory activists?When taxes are at record levels, why are we borrowing even more money to give to Leftist pressure groups?...
02.09.2023
The Letby horrors must not produce more bad lawsOur response should be proportionate to the likelihood of a repetition, not to the sense of public outrage...
30.08.2023
International support for Putin is a product of twisted anti-colonialismToday's woke activists are, without realising it, parroting Cold War era Soviet propaganda...
28.08.2023
What does it take for a libertarian to be electable?Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes! His floating hair!...
26.08.2023
Driven mad by BrexitPeter Foster, a perfectly sensible man in real life, has become a screeching loon when it comes to the EU...
24.08.2023
The voters, not the courts, should stop TrumpTheir failure to do so is unbearably depressing for friends of America...
22.08.2023
The Bank of England has ruined usThe splurge of money-printing since 2009 has prevented the economy from growing...
20.08.2023
Are spending cuts possible in a democracy?Generally only after an economic calamity, like Britain's 1976 IMF bailout...
18.08.2023
What’s special about being aboriginal?Try substituting "indigenous British" for "indigenous Australian" and see how the argument for extra rights sounds...
16.08.2023
The BMA is more interested in bashing Tories than helping doctorsA measure of private provision would benefit NHS workers more than anyone, but their unions oppose it on principle...
10.08.2023
Starmer won’t scrap the House of LordsHe'll focus on giving the vote to 16-year-olds and EU nationals instead...
10.08.2023
Let Russia fragmentRussia in its present form - an imperial Eurasian state - cannot but be a menace to the free world...
08.08.2023
What Putin has done is unforgivableTargeting Ukraine's cultural heritage serves no military purpose whatever...
06.08.2023
Rishi gets it rightIncredibly, the Conservatives are now the only party that wants to allow British as well as imported oil and gas...
04.08.2023
Never mind Americans - we are poorer than SlovenesBritain's leaders refuse to recognise our problems - excess money-printing, the NHS, over-regulation, planning restrictions...
02.08.2023
Protectionism - the destructive delusion that won’t go awayBob Lighthizer is the latest author to recycle the terrible argument, all the while imagining it is fresh and new...
29.07.2023
Who’d want to be an MP?One way to make our parliamentarians behave better is to expect it of them...
25.07.2023
The last days of Vladimir PutinWe need to prepare for the fragmentation that will follow...
19.07.2023
We can’t afford public sector pay risesGovernment workers should rejoice at being treated so generously...
15.07.2023
Our syncretic religionThe cult of the NHS depends on a series of dogmas that must be believed against all evidence...
12.07.2023
Tories refuse to accept Rishi Sunak’s Eurosceptic credentialsHe may have voted Leave but, unlike Boris and Liz, he looks like the CEO of a big multinational...
09.07.2023
Why France? Why now?The riots reflect the global BLM-inspired grievance culture, and things will only get worse ...
06.07.2023
Adam Smith at 300 - as misunderstood as everThe Sage of Kirkcaldy was pretty much the opposite of the desiccated economist he is imagined to be...
04.07.2023
Whatever you do, don’t call it a kangaroo courtThe sovereignty of Parliament should be a means to defend the sovereignty of the people, not the hurt feelings of MPs...
02.07.2023
Anti-colonialism isn’t about the past, it’s about trashing the modern WestWhat began as Soviet propaganda is now taught as mainstream history...
28.06.2023
We took back control from Brussels only to give it to WhitehallIt needn't have been this way, but we have replaced one lot of bureaucrats with another...
26.06.2023
The beginning of the end for PutinPutin's analogy with 1917 was apter than he intended, for Russia is on the verge of dissolution...
23.06.2023
The Windrush migrants came to work, not “to help”Why turn the honest story of ambitious people coming for higher pay into a Leftist morality tale?...
21.06.2023
It’s all about the vibesDeSantis is clearly to the Right of Trump, Sunak to the right of Johnson - but vibes matter more than policy...
19.06.2023
The COVID Inquiry is a jokeIt is refusing to ask the only question that matters, namely did lockdowns work...
16.06.2023
Pakistan’s slide into authoritarianism is a problem for the WestSupporters of Imran Khan are being rounded up as the army tightens its grip...
14.06.2023
Caroline Lucas won: Britain embraced degrowthThe Green Party has only one MP, yet the larger parties have all bought into its gloomy world-view...
11.06.2023
What kind of country turfs out its leader over uneaten cake?Europhile grandees, not least civil servants, were out to get Boris from the start...
09.06.2023
The Jacobean Kane and AbelJesse Norman's first novel treats Francis Bacon and Edward Coke, quite properly, as ambitious rival MPs...
06.06.2023
Civilisation - I’m looking at it nowInstead of using "Western civilisation" as a political bludgeon, put your screen aside and look at it...
04.06.2023
Socialism is losing all across EuropeBritain is exceptional in that the traditional party of the Left remains viable...
02.06.2023
Am I the last fusionist?Bill Buckley saw the creation of the anti-socialist coalition, and I have a horrible feeling that I am seeing its end...
28.05.2023
Until we face up to the needless horror of the lockdowns, we won’t move onThree years have passed since the end of the first lockdown, and we can't bear the thought that the sacrifices were for nothing...
25.05.2023
The Blob Won’t StopFirst it was Priti Patel, then Boris Johnson, then Dominic Raab, now Suella Braverman - civil servants don't like Leavers...
23.05.2023
The return of the strongmanAuthoritarian rulers are in the ascendant all over the world, and the liberal interlude is coming to an end...
21.05.2023
The conservative coalition is falling apartEconomic liberals and cultural conservatives, pushed together by the Cold War, are going their separate ways...
19.05.2023
Starmer can’t drop his Euro-obsessionLabour will do anything for the working man except ask his opinion...
17.05.2023
Why are there so few Muslim democracies?Not because ordinary Muslims don't want it, but because local elites won't allow it...
15.05.2023
We need more babiesWithout them, the ratio of pensioners to workers will become unsustainable...
13.05.2023
Won’t somebody please think of the deficit?This Coronation, like the last, was a distraction from the immensity of our debt crisis...
11.05.2023
The EU is too big to succeedSmug, bloated and remote from the voters, the EU is condemned by its design...
09.05.2023
Mill thou shouldst be living at this hourJ.S. Mill's liberalism looks more and more like an accidental interregnum between two kinds of despotism...
07.05.2023
The primitive essence of monarchyCharles III's coronation preserves a rite that stretches back 3,000 years...
05.05.2023
Republicans seem set to pick the only candidate Biden beatsThe burnt fool's bandaged finger goes wobbling back to the fire...
03.05.2023
We keep choosing to make ourselves poorerNo politician will risk bad headlines in pursuit of long-term growth...
01.05.2023
Britain is run by and for its Europhile civil servantsAnd woe betide and Eurosceptic minister who dares to tell them what to do...
28.04.2023
Yes, we should forgive Diane AbbottEither you're against cancel culture or you're not - and, if you are, you have to be consistent...
26.04.2023
You know who Cleopatra really did look like?Is it OK to impose our values on Egyptians when we do so in the name of empowering kick-ass black girlbosses?...
24.04.2023
Bringing ministers down by pseudo-legal means is faintly Latin AmericanDominic Raab was never going to get justice once he had been accused by politicised cyrbullies in the civil service...
22.04.2023
How like a godShakespeare invented our world and everyone in it - including you and me...
19.04.2023
Biden’s facile version of IrishnessHistory is rarely a goodies and baddies morality tale - and certainly not in Northern Ireland...
17.04.2023
Macron fractures the free worldIn pursuit of EU "strategic autonomy", Euro-integrationists are abandoning Taiwan...
14.04.2023
Am I the last critic of the Belfast Agreement?That deal is treated almost literally as Holy Writ - except among ordinary Unionist voters...
11.04.2023
Americans! Join the CPTPP!If Britain sees benefits from the Pacific trade nexus, the US - which largely designed the deal - is crazy to stand aside...
09.04.2023
When it comes to slavery, we British were the goodiesEvery civilisation traded in human beings - until the UK decided to end the foul business...
06.04.2023
Free countries don’t go in for political arrestsLawfare, malicious investigations, trumped up charges - these things are our future if we keep elevating outcome over process...
29.03.2023
The Boris investigation is a travestyPoliticians should not get to decide which other politicians stay in office...
21.03.2023
The lockdowns were deadlier than the diseaseSweden had the lowest excess mortality rate in Europe - a terrible refutation of the case for locking down...
17.03.2023
Why the quangocracy growsA return to the Oxford Union showed me why governments keep setting up executive agencies...
14.03.2023
What the hell were they thinking when they invaded Iraq?Twenty years ago, good men, advised by knowledgeable foreign policy experts, launched the West's worst foreign policy blunder...
11.03.2023
Cancel culture is always wrong - including for LinekerHe can be as stupid, obnoxious and juvenile as he likes, provided he keeps it separate from his work...
08.03.2023
Our new blasphemy lawsEvery society seems to need taboos, no-go areas; woke has taken the place of religion...
05.03.2023
Hundreds more Sue Grays are working against the ToriesThe civil service is institutionally statist, Europhile and woke, and no one seems to care...
02.03.2023
Why did Brussels fold so suddenly?The EU's movement on the Northern Ireland Protocol suggests that it is finally getting over its pique...
26.02.2023
Crunch-time for Northern IrelandResolve the Northern Ireland Protocol and UK-EU relations will improve across the board...
23.02.2023
The terrible price of identity politicsThousands of girls were abused because of our religious elevation of anti-racism...
21.02.2023
Scottish separatism is not dead yetNicola Sturgeon's fall is a setback, but the trashing of the British brand continues...
19.02.2023
The silliest smear in politicsWith vast amounts being firehose away by the state, it is bizarre to focus on ministers' declared and legitimate hotel bills...
17.02.2023
That Rejoiner plot in fullThe plan is not to hold another referendum, but to edge back in with baby steps...
15.02.2023
Nepo babies are a reminder of how everything used to workWe notice them only because Western societies have, exceptionally, moved from status to contract...
13.02.2023
Our uncivil mastersBritain's administrative machine is woke, expensive and, worst of all, inept...
10.02.2023
Stop the boatsIf the only way to halt the Channel crossings is to quit the ECHR, Rishi Sunak will have little choice...
08.02.2023
America’s trigger-happy copsIf we had faced up to the culture of impunity rather than focusing just on the racism, we might not be in this mess...
06.02.2023
We would rather ruin ourselves than raise the pension ageIf we stuck to Lloyd George's actuarial formula, state pensions would kick in at around 100...
03.02.2023
Britain is CANZUK’s Leftist outlierWhy are Labour Australia and New Zealand and Liberal Canada more free-market than Tory Britain?...
01.02.2023
America slides back into protectionismThe Inflation Reduction Act is sparking a series of 1930s-style beggar-my-neighbour responses...
29.01.2023
How Rejoiners plan to undo BrexitNot with an immediate referendum, but with slow reintegration until membership can be presented as the natural next step...
26.01.2023
Everything considered, Britain is doing pretty wellWhat with Covid, the Ukraine war and a global slowdown, the UK is performing well relative to the EU...
23.01.2023
Voters finally begin to understand the damage done by lockdownsYou'd never imagine it from the tributes, but Jacinda Ardern was behind in the polls and falling further...
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...
