14.06.2023

Caroline Lucas won: Britain embraced degrowth

The Green Party has only one MP, yet the larger parties have all bought into its gloomy world-view...

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11.08.2022

Sanctions don’t work

Let's not kid ourselves - the only thing that will stop Putin is defeat on the battlefield...

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12.04.2021

The EU has become a kind of Gormenghast - protocol-obsessed, archaic, feeble

The opéra bouffe row about who sat in which chair illuminates the prickliness of a declining institution...

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28.01.2021

Britain is already trading more freely than it was in the EU

Everyone said it was impossible, but the UK has signed 63 FTAs, with more on the way...

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11.09.2020

This is far more dangerous than “political correctness gone mad”

We are returning to pre-Enlightenment thinking, where tribe and identity trump science and reason...

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17.06.2017

A great tragedy is not always proof of great wickedness

Do you remember the tragic story of Jacintha Saldanha? You don’t?...

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01.06.2017

How can Labour’s leaders be in thrall to Marx?

Shall I tell you the most extraordinary thing about the clique who have commandeered the Labour Party?...

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26.05.2017

How should Thatcherites respond to May?

A bizarre idea has crept into our political discourse during the past six months...

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29.03.2017

Brexit is happening – so let’s all cheer up about it

Birds flying high, you know how I feel. Sun in the sky, you know how I feel. Leaves driftin’ on by, you know how I feel....

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22.03.2017

An attack on our democracy

It is only natural to take the police for granted....

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18.01.2017

May must hope for the best on Brexit – but prepare for the worst

First, reassure the world that, outside the EU, Britain will be competitive, engaged and open for business....

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17.12.2016

The glad tidings we refuse to believe

On New Year’s Day, I wrote a piece for CapX entitled “Sixteen Reasons to be cheerful about 2016”....

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25.11.2016

No, David Aaronovitch: collective guilt is never a good idea

How did you feel when you heard that a mother of two young children had been murdered by a gunman?...

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20.05.2016

Don’t listen to actors off stage

Actors, thought Samuel Johnson, were “no better than creatures set upon tables and joint-stools to make faces and produce laught...

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09.05.2016

Remain campaign is misleading voters on the Single Market

I’ve realised that there is a gargantuan misunderstanding at the heart of the referendum debate – a misunderstanding to which...

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23.04.2016

How like a god: Shakespeare and the invention of the world

‘I have not a shadow of a doubt that William Shakespeare would have voted to remain,’ writes Chris Bryant, in a piece of sustain...

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18.04.2016

7 risks in voting Remain

How dismal the Remain-mongers sound, how timorous. ‘Yeah, we know that the EU is a bit rubbish, but it’s safer to stick with...

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11.04.2016

David Cameron has done nothing wrong on tax

Have you ever bought an ISA? Or held premium bonds? Then, my friend, you are a tax avoider...

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04.04.2016

Do Remain campaigners think they’re the only ones with kids?

There is something faintly distasteful about using children as political agents. One thinks of the Spies, the youth organisation...

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08.03.2016

Britain’s obsolescent conglomerates are backing Remain

If you thought that there was no longer such a thing as the British Establishment, think again. The Remain side is campaigning...

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02.03.2016

The dodgy dossier on the EU

The UK government is to publish a report on what Britain’s post-EU options would look like. Here are few problems with the dodgy...

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29.02.2016

​Forget Boris, forget Michael Gove: this is the big EU development

Back in August, one of the Prime Minister’s aides told the Sunday Times, ‘If the referendum campaign is fought around what is...

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17.02.2016

Ten Euro-myths debunked

By the time we get to vote on leaving the EU, you’ll be sick and tired of figures. Unless you’re very unusual, you’ll be subject...

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08.02.2016

If David Cameron thinks the EU wants to shunt illegal immigrants on to Britain, why does he want to

Let’s start with the basics. The reciprocal stationing of UK and French immigration officials on both sides of the Channel has...

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01.02.2016

David Cameron’s EU emergency brake is ‎fake

The idea of an ‘emergency brake’ that can be applied ‘the day after the referendum’ is false. It is, moreover, clearly, palpably...

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08.01.2016

Let Shakespeare’s women speak for themselves

Shakespeare’s women, like his men, are as vivid to us as flesh-and-blood people. More vivid, indeed, because living people tend...

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01.01.2016

16 reasons to be cheerful about 2016

Iain Martin closed the old year with 15 reasons to be cheerful about 2015. Let me open the new one with 16 reasons to be...

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