14.05.2025
Save our solesWe should in no circumstances sacrifice fishing rights for the privilege of being allowed to defend the EU...
12.05.2025
Six arguments for globalisationThe case for global markets rests on a series of counter-intuitive and therefore unpopular truths...
08.05.2025
We are too complacent to halt the coming warLike the generation of 1914, we are unable to picture what lies ahead...
06.05.2025
Starmer’s EU selloutNo serious country lets someone else set its standards permanently and open-endedly...
04.05.2025
Why are so few novelists conservative?Mario Vargas Llosa was a rare exception, and a consistent opponent of tyranny...
02.05.2025
Hashem Abedi and the problem of evilWhat do you do when an unrepentant murderer keeps trying to kill prison guards?...
30.04.2025
An Atlantic trade deal is within Starmer’s graspIt will be the most successful moment of his premiership...
28.04.2025
The US is just one more Latin American countryCaudillismo, territorial expansionism, contempt for the constitution, jailing opponents, protectionism...
26.04.2025
The world has changed, but can Labour change with it?Keir Starmer will struggle to deliver the lighter and more agile Britain that the moment demands...
24.04.2025
Right but revoltingDonald Trump is loathsome, but he has a point about free speech in Britain...
22.04.2025
Marine Le Pen: Scamming MEP or Eurosceptic martyr?Banning popular opposition candidates is almost never a good idea...
20.04.2025
America heads for meltdownOne's man obsession will immiserate the US and impoverish the world...
18.04.2025
Starmer’s opportunityThe only silver lining is that Britain can emerge as the free trade champion...
16.04.2025
Lessons from our closest alliesDonald Trump has destroyed the Right in Canada, and possibly also Australia...
14.04.2025
Trump has resuscitated the global LeftEspecially in the countries that feel the pressure of MAGA revanchism...
12.04.2025
Fictional baddies are usually male and always whiteA drama set in a northern English town about the abuse of women? Make the perpetrator is a white kid from a two-parent home...
08.04.2025
The threats to Canada shame AmericaTrump is railing against his own trade deal - and his officials are too cowed to say anything...
06.04.2025
Is Labour about to U-turn on everything?Toughening up on benefits could be the first sign...
04.04.2025
We chose to ruin ourselvesFive years on, we still can't admit that ithe lockdowns were for nothing...
02.04.2025
If Trump were a Russian asset, what would he be doing differently?Switching sides in Ukraine, telling the NSA to stop monitoring Russia, picking fights with Nato allies...
30.03.2025
Woke is being replaced by something just as uglyOne form of identity politics has edged out another...
26.03.2025
The biggest security threat is slow growthWho cares whether we spend two, three of five per cent of GDP on defence when GDP is flatlining?...
24.03.2025
Keep politicians out of footballRegulators make things worse, and the Premier League will be no exception...
22.03.2025
America switches sidesIn backing Russia against Nato, Trump has destroyed the international order...
20.03.2025
We can’t afford to be a global peacekeeperIf we want to send troops to Ukraine, we need domestic growth...
18.03.2025
Britain must choose: America or Europe?JD Vance has made clear that carrying on as now is not an option...
16.03.2025
Nato is finishedThe bureaucracy may limp on for a few more years, but the alliance is done as a force in world affairs...
14.03.2025
How to return to growthThe cure is simple - spend, tax and regulate less - but, because it is harsh, we keep looking for quack alternatives...
12.03.2025
Margaret, thou shouldst be living at this hourWe are back to where we were in the late 1970s, with no hope of revival...
08.03.2025
Free speech or mass immigration - pick oneInstead of making newcomers adapt to our culture, we are doing the opposite...
06.03.2025
Government by human rights lawyers is finishing us offThe Chagos betrayal will eventually destroy either Starmer or Britain...
04.03.2025
Islam’s war of liberation in EuropeSome 17th-century English radicals saw Islam as an antidote to obscurantism, intolerance and superstition...
02.03.2025
Our woke attorney general is making Britain ridiculousThe thread that links every Labour cock-up is the involvement of Lord Hermer...
28.02.2025
America turns on its loyal alliesThe MAGA crowd don't care that Denmark and Canada have been loyal friends for decades...
26.02.2025
How Harmerism wrecked BritainThe rest of the world has given up on rule by human rights lawyers...
24.02.2025
However you vote, the Greens winOur permanent bureaucracy is in hoc to climate cultism...
22.02.2025
The woke won’t allow even one free speech universityJames Tooley's calvary at Buckingham shows what campus conservatives are up against...
20.02.2025
Britain should copy Trump on deportationsImagine we started using sanctions against poor but unfriendly regimes...
16.02.2025
Britain is warming to TrumpNegative polarisation is driving his popularity on the Right...
14.02.2025
Why are British leaders less decisive than Americans?British PMs have given up trying to challenge the administrative and judicial constraints on them...
12.02.2025
Labour is finished either wayIf it cuts spending, it alienates its remaining core; if it doesn't, it wrecks the economy and its own reputation...
10.02.2025
The coming British-American free speech warSuppose a British court were to fine X ten per cent of its revenue under the Online Safety Act...
06.02.2025
What ‘crashing the economy’ really looks likeLabour inherited a fragile post-lockdown recovery and immediately went on a spending spree...
04.02.2025
Labour’s only shot at powerIf the Right remains split, Labour could win with as little as 25 per cent...
02.02.2025
Time for an Anglosphere UnionInstead of threatening Canada, Trump should offer a closer security and trade partnership...
30.01.2025
Nasty, purse-lipped, envious, spiteful, vindictive LabourThe party doesn't even pretend to care about schoolchildren, only about teaching unions...
28.01.2025
Musk pursues disruption for its own sakeShaking things up can sometimes make them worse - as conservatives used to understand...
26.01.2025
Without a Tory-Reform pact, Labour will cling onIf human beings were logic-driven androids, it would already have happened...
24.01.2025
Democracy is in retreat globallyIs it because of the financial crisis, mass immigration, smartphones or something else?...
22.01.2025
We are paying the EU for the privilege of giving it what it wantsKeir Starmer sees the "reset" as atonement for Brexit, not an opportunity to make gains...
20.01.2025
Goodbye sluggish Europe, hello booming PacificOur membership of the CPTPP is an economic and strategic upgrade, and paves the way for a US trade deal...
18.01.2025
Now parliamentarians can be barred for lack of racial sensitivityThe case of Baroness Meyer shows that we have brought a new Test Act into Parliament...
16.01.2025
Should libertarians copy Javier Milei’s coarse style?"We're all tarts when it's someone else's arse," is how the Argentine President explains free-market economics...
14.01.2025
Britain slides into despotismThe country which led the world in free speech is now going in the opposite direction...
12.01.2025
Prince William is Britain’s secret weaponDonald Trump barely hides his contempt for Labour, but feels very differently about the Royal Family...
10.01.2025
Why meddle with what is working well?English football is an unquestionable global success so, naturally, we want to subject it to state regulation...
08.01.2025
The money has run outVoters don't want to accept it and politicians don't want to admit it...
06.01.2025
Is Trump more pro-British than Starmer?The test of the Labour leader is his willingness to sign a deal with our biggest trading partner...
04.01.2025
Unite the RightIt is time to start thinking about a Conservative-Reform electoral pact...
02.01.2025
Labour can’t even get wokery rightDetermined to back an ex-colony against a coloniser, a brown nation against a white, it overlooked the Chagossians...
30.12.2024
How to avoid World War ThreeWe have turned our backs on the formula that brought the Long Peace: free trade, democracy and the rule of law...
28.12.2024
Justin Trudeau’s death throesDid Trump bring down Trudeau with a single social media post?...
26.12.2024
The real lockdown casualty was scienceJay Bhattacharya must undo the damage that scientific panjandrums inflicted on themselves in 2020...
24.12.2024
Will Trump’s tariffs lead to a new Great Depression?They always do most damage to the nation imposing them, yet every generation needs to learn the lesson again...
22.12.2024
Britain is becoming an anti-free speech outlierIn the nation of Milton and Wilkes, free expression is subordinated to the imagined sensitivities of approved minorities...
20.12.2024
Ukraine marks the end of the Pax AmericanaTrump can walk away from Ukraine, but he cannot walk away from the consequences of walking away...
18.12.2024
Turning us all into devilsOur inability to see good in opponents is not just weakening democracy, it is making us worse people ...
14.12.2024
Will the US hand China the most important base in the Indo-Pacific region?Labour's deal with Mauritius is already falling apart, and the US can deliver the coup de grâce...
12.12.2024
Trump’s golden offer to BritainWill Labour overcome its student union tendency and act in the national interest?...
10.12.2024
The Democrats no longer care about winningWokery has destroyed the Dems, and will destroy Labour...
08.12.2024
Might Labour be the party that exploits Brexit?It won't want to, but it will struggle to find arguments against a US trade deal...
06.12.2024
The tyrant in the toupée, I presume?Labour's anti-Americanism is harming Britain's interests...
04.12.2024
Labour’s small boats lieWe blame "the gangs" because we are reluctant to blame the illegals themselves...
02.12.2024
Sometimes it takes an immigrant to appreciate BritainAnd what should they know of England who only England know?...
28.11.2024
The dream is overInstead of other countries aspiring to be more like America, America has become more like everywhere else...
24.11.2024
This is how Labour will fallIt won't be the sleaze that brings it down, but the associated piousness, prissiness and puritanism...
22.11.2024
Forty years of free-market consensus have been undoneOnce again, Labour is bankrupting Britain...
20.11.2024
O’Sullivan’s First LawAll organisations not explicitly Right-wing become Left-wing over time...
18.11.2024
Britain and America always have their timing wrongA free trade agreement should have happened long ago, but we are the Rhett and Scarlett of international commerce...
16.11.2024
How to sell smaller government to a subsidy-junkie electorateVoters complain that taxes keep going up while public services deteriorate, but recoil at the only possible solution...
14.11.2024
Impartial policing has been subordinated to racial politicsIt is unthinkable that Chris Kaba's death would have resulted in a murder charge had he been white...
12.11.2024
Protectionism disguised as greeneryIt's time for a free trade agreement with Indonesia...
10.11.2024
Reparations are wrong on every levelIlliberal and collectivist, they are based on shockingly bad history...
08.11.2024
It should be called destructionismProtectionism hurts everyone - not least its intended beneficiaries...
06.11.2024
Oxford’s shocking cowardiceIn going along with the generals' bogus case against Imran Khan, the university authorities have emboldened them...
04.11.2024
America’s godawful choiceOne candidate was disqualified by policy, the other by personality...
02.11.2024
It already feels like the beginning of the endLabour has been brought low by its overweening self-righteousness...
30.10.2024
Why I back JenrickTogether, through the ages of the world, we have fought the long defeat...
28.10.2024
Conservatives won’t win by being niceThey'll win by being (or at least being thought to be) efficient...
26.10.2024
Writing this could get me ten years in a Mauritian prisonBritain is not the colonial oppressor here...
24.10.2024
Who knew the Aztecs were woke?The row between Spain and Mexico shows the absurdities into which victim politics lead us...
