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...
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...
