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...
13.02.2021
If we want to return to growth, we need to reverse the Covid spending increases and controlsRestrictions brought in on a supposedly contingent basis are proving hard to lift...
11.02.2021
We need lockdown dissenters more than everThe Twittering of debate makes even scientists reluctant to challenge the consensus...
09.02.2021
The more time we spend online, the angrier and more extreme we becomeOn Brexit, Trump and the lockdowns, I have gone from being extreme to being wet without altering my views...
07.02.2021
The Northern Ireland Protocol has had itIt should never have been agreed, and now the EU itself has backhandedly killed it...
05.02.2021
Britain’s Pacific PivotJoining the CPTPP will strengthen the Anglosphere and boost jobs and growth...
03.02.2021
Open. The. Schools.Closing primary schools, in particular, inflicts vast educational cost for minimal epidemiological gain...
01.02.2021
Maybe Americans will finally understand what Brexit was really aboutIt is the EU, not Britain, that is the populist, protectionist rogue state...
30.01.2021
Europhiles are finally seeing the EU for the inept, protectionist, self-serving racket it isLike Western Communists after the 1968 Prague Spring, many Remainers have had their eyes opened...
28.01.2021
Britain is already trading more freely than it was in the EUEveryone said it was impossible, but the UK has signed 63 FTAs, with more on the way...
27.01.2021
Overseas travel may never returnRoger Scruton would have welcomed a world in which we spend more time at home...
25.01.2021
Does the label “genocide” make anything better?We should be wary of collectivising people in death, as in life...
24.01.2021
The EU is a sovereign state in every meaningful sense, and we should treat it as suchThe EU has hit the roof at suggestions that its ambassador might be traced as the representative of an international association...
22.01.2021
Free association is an absolute right, not conditional on identity politicsA club can insist you wear a tie, a gym can refuse to admit men, a platform can refuse to host people whose opinions it dislikes...
20.01.2021
Will every dangerous virus now trigger demands for a lockdown?The early signs are not encouraging...
18.01.2021
The solution to America’s culture war is radical decentralisationThe two tribes are now so far apart, and so geographically clustered, that there is no way of bridging the gap...
17.01.2021
The trashing of the British brand puts the Union in jeopardyUnionists can't just keep saying no. It is time for a new constitutional settlement...
14.01.2021
Why are the teaching unions so determined to stop teaching?First they insisted that all teaching be moved online, now they are campaigning against that, too...
13.01.2021
The republic will survive Trump - but will the Republicans?The GOP must break cleanly with the man who came late and malevolently to the party...
11.01.2021
Don’t excuse insurrectionFor four years, Trump's supporters have given him a pass - something the Chief Executive should never get...
07.01.2021
We need to grow our way out of this mess - here’s a list of EU laws to scrapBritain has been uniquely badly hit by the lockdowns, and economic recovery must now be the sole aim of public policy...
04.01.2021
The coronavirus may be what finally kills capitalismIt has been endlessly predicted since Karl Marx's time, but the end is truly now on the cards...
26.12.2020
We can now expect good relations with the EU - maybe, at last, the culture war can endGiven the hand he was dealt, Boris played a blinder ...
24.12.2020
Both sides are sounding off furiously about a deal that neither has seenAs usual, people are starting with their preferred conclusions and then casting around for rationalisations...
21.12.2020
The woke will stop at nothing in pursuit of their demented cultural revolutionJulie Burchill, a provocatrice hired to write a provocative book, has it cancelled - fore being too provocative ...
17.12.2020
There is now more man-made stuff in the world than there are animals - but don’t let it bother youThere's evidence that we have passed the peak, because capitalism encourages minimisation...
15.12.2020
If there were a way to make wealth taxes work, some country would have found it by nowYou can only confiscate present wealth, not future wealth - and future wealth won't be created if it's subject to confiscation...
13.12.2020
Brexit as it might have beenBoris Johnson becomes PM in 2016, Britain joins EFTA and a culture war is avoided...
10.12.2020
The EU’s attitude to Britain is that of an empire toward a renegade provinceThe EU is offering deliberately hostile terms in order to make a point - even at cost to itself...
09.12.2020
The day is coming when we will wonder how anyone could eat an animalClean meat will free up vast tracts of land and reduce carbon emissions...
06.12.2020
Valéry Giscard d’Estaing embodied the de-haut-en-bas arrogance of the EU elites'Si extraordinairement distingué, quand je lui dis "bonjour" je me fais toujours l'effect de lui dire "merde".'...
05.12.2020
The lockdown has divided us into two unreasonable and hostile tribesAs with Brexit, I find that I have migrated across the spectrum without changing my opinions...
01.12.2020
When even Eton goes woke, the war is overReason, tolerance, moderation, courtesy - we are leaving them all behind...
30.11.2020
Why the United States should join the CPTPPPulling out of the Pacific trade deal opened the door to Chinese hegemony...
28.11.2020
How odd that the rebellion should begin just as the lockdown is finally being liftedWe are hitting what marathon runners call "the wall": the end is in sight, but our muscle energy has run out...
25.11.2020
Vaccinate staff, keep kids in class, hold exams on timeIt is almost literally unbelievable that we might repeat this year's exams fiasco in 2021...
23.11.2020
Irish America clings to quarrels now largely forgotten in Ireland itselfThe tragic circumstances of the migration made the US different from other diaspora communities...
22.11.2020
Devolution will be a disaster until Scotland gets meaningful fiscal autonomyIn an age which elevates victimhood over liberty, the British brand is bound to lose its appeal...
20.11.2020
The lockdown has undone a decade of progress for poor childrenWe are running schools in the interests of the producers, not the consumers...
17.11.2020
GOP leaders know that Trump has lost - but they won’t say so out loudThe president's peevishness is harming the Republicans and undermining the Republic...
14.11.2020
More tax rises would kill any chance of a recoveryThe way to balance the books is to spend less, not to tax more...
12.11.2020
Republican candidates outpolled Trump - yet they are too scared to act against himThe idea that Trump has a unique appeal to blue-collar voters is hard to reconcile with the results...
11.11.2020
Je me souviens des jours anciens et je pleureHow can anyone look at trees in November and not be pierced by the terrible beauty of mortality?...
09.11.2020
One thing distinguishes the United States from Latin America - the rule of lawThose who refuse to accept an election result because they resent the outcome are endangering American exceptionalism...
08.11.2020
We are heading for decades of debt and Big GovernmentThe impact of the coronavirus crisis will last a generation...
06.11.2020
Official Britain grovelled before agitators representing just three per cent of the publicBLM is indulged for the same reason that most food is halal: asymmetry of conviction...
02.11.2020
Commentators are over-compensating, refusing the believe the signs that Biden will winAs with Britain in 2019, the polls may turn out to have been right all along...
31.10.2020
Why, given everything we now know, are we locking down again?The only argument for a lockdown is that it buys time. But what are we buying time for?...
30.10.2020
Brexit is a colossal opportunity for our coastal communitiesIceland shows us how to treat fisheries as a valuable renewable resource...
29.10.2020
How much is all this costing?It won't do any more to promise to defeat Covid "at any cost" - we need figures...
26.10.2020
The world that lies beyond the lockdowns will be an uglier and more authoritarian onePower has shifted to the autocracies, and even in the West liberalism is in retreat...
24.10.2020
I feel it in my bones: public enthusiasm for the lockdowns is about to turnLabour has picked the worst possible moment to jump on the lockdown bandwagon...
22.10.2020
My native Peru had the world’s toughest lockdown, but still ended up with the worst fatality rateWe need to accept that government intervention does not make much difference either way...
20.10.2020
It’s Kang versus Kodos, a knave or a fool, a fantasist Falstaff against a senescent LearWhoever wins the 2020 presidential election, America is heading in a darker direction...
19.10.2020
The EU is treating Britain like a renegade provinceThere is no good faith from Brussels, and Britain should not accept the Withdrawal Agreement without a trade deal...
15.10.2020
As a lockdown sceptic, I now know how it must have felt to be a RemainerEveryone you know agrees with you, you're convinced the facts are on your side, but the polls show you're in the minority...
14.10.2020
The police have taken it upon themselves to snuff out free speechInvestigating Darren Grimes isn't just a waste of money, it's an assault on liberty...
12.10.2020
Sweden has demolished the case for the lockdownLow population density? Economic hit? Higher death rate than Finland? All utterly irrelevant...
11.10.2020
Labour would leave Britain with the most restrictive trade policy outside North KoreaUnder the pretence of defending food standards, they would make any trade deals, even with the EU, impossible...
06.10.2020
A war out of a comic novelThe Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has a Gilbert and Sullivan quality...
01.10.2020
Beardless men will soon be in the minority - againThe periods when men were clean-shaven are brief interglacials between long hirsute ice ages...
30.09.2020
Charles Moore would make the perfect BBC ChairmanClever, witty, independent, broad-minded, humane, well-read, courteous - he is the best ally the Corporation could have...
28.09.2020
Hume, Voltaire, Kant, Darwin - identity politics is turning on the men who made the EnlightenmentAn irrationalist creed is now openly attacking logic and science as white male baggage...
26.09.2020
Medical advisory committees are prone to absurd pessimism and risk-aversionTheir members' personal incentives push them towards excessive caution...
