14.06.2023
Caroline Lucas won: Britain embraced degrowthThe Green Party has only one MP, yet the larger parties have all bought into its gloomy world-view...
11.08.2022
Sanctions don’t workLet's not kid ourselves - the only thing that will stop Putin is defeat on the battlefield...
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...
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...
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...
17.06.2017
A great tragedy is not always proof of great wickednessDo you remember the tragic story of Jacintha Saldanha? You don’t?...
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?...
26.05.2017
How should Thatcherites respond to May?A bizarre idea has crept into our political discourse during the past six months...
29.03.2017
Brexit is happening – so let’s all cheer up about itBirds 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....
18.01.2017
May must hope for the best on Brexit – but prepare for the worstFirst, reassure the world that, outside the EU, Britain will be competitive, engaged and open for business....
17.12.2016
The glad tidings we refuse to believeOn New Year’s Day, I wrote a piece for CapX entitled “Sixteen Reasons to be cheerful about 2016”....
25.11.2016
No, David Aaronovitch: collective guilt is never a good ideaHow did you feel when you heard that a mother of two young children had been murdered by a gunman?...
20.05.2016
Don’t listen to actors off stageActors, thought Samuel Johnson, were “no better than creatures set upon tables and joint-stools to make faces and produce laught...
09.05.2016
Remain campaign is misleading voters on the Single MarketI’ve realised that there is a gargantuan misunderstanding at the heart of the referendum debate – a misunderstanding to which...
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...
18.04.2016
7 risks in voting RemainHow dismal the Remain-mongers sound, how timorous. ‘Yeah, we know that the EU is a bit rubbish, but it’s safer to stick with...
11.04.2016
David Cameron has done nothing wrong on taxHave you ever bought an ISA? Or held premium bonds? Then, my friend, you are a tax avoider...
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...
08.03.2016
Britain’s obsolescent conglomerates are backing RemainIf you thought that there was no longer such a thing as the British Establishment, think again. The Remain side is campaigning...
02.03.2016
The dodgy dossier on the EUThe UK government is to publish a report on what Britain’s post-EU options would look like. Here are few problems with the dodgy...
29.02.2016
Forget Boris, forget Michael Gove: this is the big EU developmentBack in August, one of the Prime Minister’s aides told the Sunday Times, ‘If the referendum campaign is fought around what is...
17.02.2016
Ten Euro-myths debunkedBy 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...
08.02.2016
If David Cameron thinks the EU wants to shunt illegal immigrants on to Britain, why does he want toLet’s start with the basics. The reciprocal stationing of UK and French immigration officials on both sides of the Channel has...
01.02.2016
David Cameron’s EU emergency brake is fakeThe idea of an ‘emergency brake’ that can be applied ‘the day after the referendum’ is false. It is, moreover, clearly, palpably...
08.01.2016
Let Shakespeare’s women speak for themselvesShakespeare’s women, like his men, are as vivid to us as flesh-and-blood people. More vivid, indeed, because living people tend...
01.01.2016
16 reasons to be cheerful about 2016Iain Martin closed the old year with 15 reasons to be cheerful about 2015. Let me open the new one with 16 reasons to be...