16.09.2021
Sir Lindsay Hoyle is right to insist on formal dress - more’s the pityI hate wearing ties but, as a conservative, I see why they should be required...
14.09.2021
Hannan’s First Law: No party is Eurosceptic in officeMichel Barnier is the latest politician to sing a very different tune on the campaign trail...
12.09.2021
Why do some parties oppose basic anti-fraud measures at elections?Labour supports vaccine passports but opposes voter ID...
10.09.2021
Shakespeare wasn’t blind to age, race or genderBizarre casting interposes the producer's ego between us and the action, ensuring we all get an obstructed view...
08.09.2021
Biden listened to the Taliban before he listened to BritainWith the United States withdrawing into her hemisphere, Britain must redefine her role...
06.09.2021
We’re all going to get Covid. The remaining restrictions are obsoleteThe vaccines prevent serious illness, not transmission. There is no longer an externality ...
04.09.2021
Higher taxes AND higher prices will put the Tories out of officeIf the government needs more revenue, it should try boosting competitiveness...
02.09.2021
A Britain obsessed with the evils of colonialism finds it harder to do the right thingPrestige is as hard a commodity in Afghanistan as cobalt or cardamom - and Britain's has just vanished...
30.08.2021
Why do ministers pretend not to understand the Laffer Curve?Cutting tax rates raises revenues - as Conservatives well understand...
28.08.2021
No Pax Americana, no paxAmericans understandably want to be left alone but, as in 1941, that is not an option...
26.08.2021
This is starting to look like a pushover governmentGrade inflation, monetary inflation, spending rises - all driven by the demand for short-term popularity...
22.08.2021
David Gauke should be a ConservativeHis return would indicate that the party has moved on definitively from the fevered rows of 2019...
16.08.2021
Welcome to the age of the autocratThe long Anglosphere hegemony is over - and by Heaven we'll miss it...
14.08.2021
The USSR fell apart 30 years ago - the happiest geopolitical event of my lifetimeThe odd thing is that the chief agent in the dissolution of the Soviet Union was the Russian state...
12.08.2021
On every continent, democracy is in retreatCovid has accelerated the trend to despotism that began in the middle of the last decade...
10.08.2021
Ancestral guilt is backThe tribal morality of bloodguilt and vendetta has been revived in the form of woke...
08.08.2021
I won’t judge you if you wear a mask - please do me the same courtesyThe last thing we needed was another sodding culture war...
06.08.2021
Party donors should be thanked, not demonisedIt is better for rich people to support causes bigger than themselves than to live lives of sybaritic indulgence...
04.08.2021
If the Conservatives become a high tax party, they are finishedWhen did the Tories forget that higher rates can lead to lower revenues?...
02.08.2021
The epidemic revealed the flaws in the NHS, but we are determined not to look at themThe severity of our lockdown was determined by the unusual fragility of our healthcare system...
30.07.2021
With or without the EU’s consent, the Northern Ireland Protocol is finishedIt can go through agreement, through Article 16 or through unilateral denunciation - but it's going...
28.07.2021
British Servicemen must be subject to the rule of lawAn amnesty for soldiers in Northern Ireland would put them on the same moral plane as the terrorist bombers...
26.07.2021
The case for vaccine passports has crumbledIf vaccines work, passports are no longer needed, and if they don't then passports were pointless all along...
24.07.2021
Is there any point in unilateral decarbonisation?Britain is well placed to develop clean energy technology, but there is no purpose in acting alone...
22.07.2021
We are heading for massive inflationI lived through it in Peru, and I have a horrible sense that the same thing could happen here...
20.07.2021
Admit it: Britain is one of the least racist countries in the worldWe exaggerated a handful of racist Tweets because they confirmed the false idea that Britain was unusually bigoted...
18.07.2021
We get the politicians we deserveWe don't want Sir Toby as PM, we want Malvolio - and we'll get him...
16.07.2021
The Animal Sentience Bill is a textbook example of bad lawDisproportionate, unneeded and open to misinterpretation, it is certain to have unintended consequences...
14.07.2021
Why are we stirring up old quarrels among migrant communities?We have been extraordinarily good at burying old antagonisms - until now...
12.07.2021
We don’t just accept authoritarianism - we demand itTwenty-six per cent want nightclubs permanently closed - virus or no virus - and 19 per cent want a curfew...
10.07.2021
The EU’s assault on the City has failedNow we need to deregulate in order to compete with the rest of the world...
08.07.2021
Decarbonisation is going to be bloody expensiveIt may be necessary, but let's not insult people's intelligence by pretending it will drive growth...
06.07.2021
The world over, we are giving up on liberal democracyProcess is subordinated to a preferred outcome, and no one cares about the rules any more...
04.07.2021
China’s return to totalitarianism caught the world off guardForget the talk of a peaceful rise - China is run by old men in a hurry...
02.07.2021
Europhiles have become a doomsday cultAll their forecasts were wrong, but they just keep pushing back the date of the supposed apocalypse...
30.06.2021
Reopen now - in one big bangThe sole justification for the closures - pressure on the NHS - no longer applies...
28.06.2021
Britain is the Anglosphere outlier in its attachment to lockdownEver since 1940, we have been more authoritarian than our daughter nations...
26.06.2021
It falls to Britain to guard the world’s sea-lanesThough much is taken, much abides. We are still the world's second naval power...
25.06.2021
The green jobs fallacyGovernments can't "create" jobs - at least, not without destroying other jobs...
24.06.2021
Oriel should market itself as a “safe space” for conservativesIs one non-Leftist Oxford college out of 39 really too much to ask?...
19.06.2021
The Anglo-American alliance: still making the world safe 80 years onRenewing the Atlantic Charter was a reminder that freedom is guaranteed by the Anglosphere in arms...
15.06.2021
Scrap the Northern Ireland ProtocolEU intransigence means that reform is not an option - only full abrogation will work...
12.06.2021
How to level up? LocalismWe can't decree regional prosperity from the centre. We need to devolve power...
09.06.2021
Marxism never went away - it just went wokeThe new variant is every bit as intolerant and vicious as the old...
07.06.2021
When did we decide to make big businesses our moral arbiters?An entrepreneur is already behaving morally by running a profitable company...
06.06.2021
We MUST reopen on scheduleUntil we do, large parts of the public sector will continue to work to rule...
03.06.2021
Covid is the political equivalent of a brutal warIt changes our psychology and makes us more receptive to authoritarianism...
01.06.2021
Trade sanctions won’t work against Belarus - or anyone elseEither topple the regime or learn to live with it, but don't imagine that an economic embargo will make the slightest difference...
31.05.2021
Switzerland has chosen democracy over EuropeThe EU is incompatible with the unique system of dispersed power and referendums, and th Swiss know it...
28.05.2021
Don’t respond in kind to the authoritarian LeftWe need to preserve basic liberal principles - free speech, free association, free contract...
26.05.2021
The NFU is failing British farmersWanting tariff-free imports from every EU state but not from anyone else is absurd, and farmers know it...
24.05.2021
Now the woke come after imperial unitsIf any system was imposed by force, it was metrication - but we are way past logic here...
23.05.2021
The way to withstand cancel culture is to show a little patienceHow very British that the imported American row over the Rhodes statue should have been ended by planning regulations...
20.05.2021
The writing is on the wall for LabourThou art weighed in the balances and art found wanting...
18.05.2021
What’s wrong with Anglo-Saxon values?Thomas Jefferson was right: the roots of modern liberty stretch back to pre-Norman England...
16.05.2021
Brexit risks being derailed by agricultural protectionismIf the DEFRA Blob scuppers a trade deal even with a country as friendly as Australia, we might as well give up on Global Britain...
14.05.2021
Wallpaper for Boris, curtains for KeirLabour is on its way out. So, sadly, is fiscal conservatism...
12.05.2021
Never mind Bitcoin - it’s time for BritcoinThe launch of an e-pound will eliminate transaction costs, boost the economy and provide a rival model to China's...
10.05.2021
Why Northern Ireland will endureIrish republicans chose maximum distance from Britain over accommodating Ulster's identity...
09.05.2021
We can’t keep pretending that Europe is our allyWe protect Estonia's land border and Romania's airspace, but the EU treats us as a renegade province...
06.05.2021
Macron, once the centrist pin-up, is descending into BonapartismThreatening to cut off a neighbour's energy supply stops just short of being an act of war...
05.05.2021
So far ahead with vaccination, so far behind with unlockingThe freedom to congregate is our birthright, not a privilege to be earned through good behaviour...
03.05.2021
Ghislaine Maxwell is as entitled as anyone else to the presumption of innocenceBad people - perhaps bad people especially - deserve justice...
02.05.2021
Unionism needs to move with the timesArlene Foster's toppling by her party's fundamentalist wing is bad news for the UK...
30.04.2021
The epidemic is over in Britain, so why are we not reopening?On every measure things have gone better than expected, but public opinion remains hostile to any easing...
28.04.2021
International tax harmonisation is comingThe US, the EU and the OECD all want to harmonise corporation tax, creating a cartel...
26.04.2021
Communism is back - thanks to CovidPeru is set to become the first country to elect a Marxist with a majority in peacetime. But it won't be the last...
24.04.2021
The civil service will emerge more powerful from all this - despite its failingsOfficials, not ministers, are mainly at fault, but voters never like to hear that...
22.04.2021
Diversity training makes things worseIt isn't just useless - it actually implants new biases and grievances...
19.04.2021
Why Scottish nationalism, unlike other nationalisms, gets a pass on the LeftVictimhood is seen as the supreme virtue - but, if anything, it was Scotland that made the Union...
16.04.2021
The Eurosceptic whom even Eurocrats likedJens-Peter Bonde, who has just died, established a truly pan-European anti-federalist movement...
14.04.2021
It’s official - ethnic minorities flourish in BritainRace professionals are struggling to keep up their claim that things are getting worse...
12.04.2021
The EU has become a kind of Gormenghast - protocol-obsessed, archaic, feebleThe opéra bouffe row about who sat in which chair illuminates the prickliness of a declining institution...
08.04.2021
We should be generous to the petulant and ungrateful EUThere are both selfish and altruistic reasons to share our vaccine surpluses - though we'll get no thanks...
06.04.2021
Cancel culture only ever applies in one directionMichel Foucault will remain a woke icon, despite revelations that he abused young Arab boys...
05.04.2021
The epidemic has made Labour irrelevantHow could Keir Starmer argue for even higher spending and borrowing?...
02.04.2021
Lockdowns have brought out the very worst in usWe are turning into a nation of mean-minded, intolerant, authoritarian, servile snitches...
01.04.2021
Keep the hereditary peers!At least until you keep the original bargain and move to an elected upper house ...
29.03.2021
Why do some deaths matter more than others? Because of the lockdownsCooped up off school and off work, we seize on tragic events and try to build them into something bigger...
27.03.2021
The Union flag stands for liberty under the lawIf you don't like it, the problem is yours, not the flag's...
26.03.2021
Brussels goes full ChávezExpropriating stock, seizing factories, breaking laws - and all to cover its own mistakes...
24.03.2021
It is hard to treat the EU as an ally when it so obviously resents our successThe EU regards the fact of our vaccine performance as a provocation...
19.03.2021
Laws must be general, equal and certainThere is a terrifying readiness to argue that sanctions shouldn't apply to people we happen to like...
18.03.2021
The EU descends to playground politics"Give me your vaccine! Gimme gimme gimme! Yeah, well I didn't want your stupid vaccine anyway!"...
17.03.2021
Woke only works with an audienceLabour peers are refreshingly uninterested in identity politics - because no one is watching...
15.03.2021
Victimhood trumps everything - decency, consistency, honesty, the lotClaim to belong to an oppressed group and no one will want to challenge your version of events...
13.03.2021
The smell of decay is on the SNPUnionists should leave that party to decompose and concentrate on promoting the British brand...
11.03.2021
We can’t tax, spend or print our way out of this messThe only route back to prosperity is growth - and that means tax cuts and deregulation...
10.03.2021
And then they came for Dr SeussHe might have had impeccable liberal credentials, but our woke inquisitors don't care about things like that...
07.03.2021
Seventy-five years on, we need the Anglosphere more than anyone likes to admitWinston Churchill's Fulton speech was truer than contemporaries knew...
05.03.2021
Higher spending and regulation are here to stayThe epidemic has made big spenders of us all...
03.03.2021
Let’s drop the pretence - Facebook is a publisher, not a platformThe tech giants have an agenda, just as much as RT, the Morning Star or the BBC...
01.03.2021
The woke have met their match in ShakespeareAttempts to find racism in the corpus diminishes those seeking it, not the corpus...
27.02.2021
We are far ahead of Europe on vaccines, so why are we so far behind on reopening?Once we have vaccinated the vulnerable, we should end the restrictions...
25.02.2021
A UK-India free trade agreement will make the world richer, safer and freerIndia's self-definition as an Anglophone parliamentary democracy is the central geopolitical fact of our era ...
23.02.2021
Minimum wages hurt the poorA better way to raise living standards for the least well off is to cut taxes on employment and investment, and so create jobs...
21.02.2021
The City could enjoy a golden age - but only if it cuts loose from EU regulationBy denying Britain the equivalence rights it gives to Mexico and China, Brussels forces the City to diverge...
17.02.2021
Brexit has weakened the Western allianceThe UK is looking increasingly to the Anglosphere, the EU to Eurasia...
15.02.2021
Nationalists without being patriotsWestern democracies are losing ground to authoritarianism - globally and domestically...
