14.02.2024
Much ado about ruttingJudi Dench's libidinous take on Shakespeare, reviewed for the Oldie magazine...
27.02.2018
Jeremy Corbyn and Labour are playing Brexit games with their magical thinking on the EURemainers are right about one thing. No one voted for any particular model of Brexit....
19.02.2018
The left is in denial about Jeremy Corbyn’s Communist sympathiesWill the Labour Party pay the price at the polls for Corbyn's Czech connections?...
13.02.2018
There’s nothing progressive about giving agencies like Oxfam the benefit of the doubtWealthy businessmen do not engage our sympathies as easily as aid workers. We are less willing to give them a pass....
16.01.2018
Nigel Farage is collaborating with Remain fantasists - the second referendum is a lost causeThe biggest boost to the Remain cause in 2018 has come from Nigel Farage. ...
09.01.2018
Toby Young was a tribal offering on the altar of sacred valuesToby's self-denial led BBC bulletins, and was the favourite subject on every radio phone-in. ...
12.12.2017
Advocates of Britain staying in the EU’s customs union have a hidden agendaThe customs union is a way of transitioning back into full membership of the European Union....
27.11.2017
You can understand why the Irish are getting tetchy about BrexitYou can understand why the Irish are upset about Brexit....
14.11.2017
Outside the EU, Britain can copy Singapore or Switzerland – but we have to decide nowBrexit is a legal reality: we leave on 29 March 2019 with or without an agreement....
07.11.2017
Uzbekistan is a breeding ground for Islamist terrorism thanks to its self-fulfilling prophecyTold it was either Islam Karimov or the fundamentalists, a number of Uzbeks concluded the fundamentalists weren't so bad....
18.10.2017
Why has free trade stopped being a left-wing cause?200 years after David Ricardo, why are people still misunderstanding free trade's virtues?...
10.10.2017
Why you should be optimistic about BrexitThings almost always work out better than expected, and Brexit should be no exception....
26.09.2017
Why are Kurdish and Catalan independence OK, but not British independence?Because of its history, Britain will never be the underdog. That doesn't mean it can't be right....
19.09.2017
Remainers are using false quotes to smear BrexiteersLeave campaigners must be shown to be deceitful in order to undermine the authority of the referendum....
11.09.2017
How Winnie-the-Pooh explains British politicsWhen it comes to Brexit, it's easy to see who is a Tigger and who is an Eeyore....
05.09.2017
Rohingya Muslims stood by Britain in WWII. Now they are dying, where is our loyalty?The victims are Muslim, and the persecutors are Buddhist - which doesn't neatly fit our Western world-view....
21.08.2017
The alt-right and alt-left dunderheads are making a mockery of American democracyEach side needs the other and builds up the opposition as larger and more menacing than it really is....
31.07.2017
American chickens have turned Europhiles into chauvinistsAmericans are as fussy about hygiene as any people on Earth....
25.07.2017
Either the BBC is paying market rates for top talent, or it underpays women.Which one is it, lefties?...
17.07.2017
We wouldn’t celebrate a statue of Hitler. So why Engels?Nazism killed 17 million people; Communism 100 million....
10.07.2017
Trump is pandering to Putin - and it’s playing into Russia’s handsHe may be innocent of collusion, but he seems to enjoy behaving like a man with something to hide....
03.07.2017
Staying in the customs union after Brexit would be a disaster for Britain’s tradeLeaving would mean that we can sign our own trade agreements with the world's major economies....
26.06.2017
Corbyn’s support will fall now he’s finally being treated as a politician rather than as a jokeBritish people, who have always eschewed political extremes, won't vote for a UK version of Fidel Castro....
19.06.2017
Finsbury Park attack: We need to make political violence a tabooIn our language and attitudes, we can place it in the same moral category as child abuse or cannibalism....
12.06.2017
This opposition to the DUP is idioticOver the weekend, the hive mind of Momentum, Comment Is Free and chunks of the BBC somehow reached the view that the Democratic ...
06.06.2017
Trump wants Londoners to be more alarmed. That’s exactly what the terrorists want tooPerhaps Donald and his vocal cheerleaders simply don't get British stoicism....
31.05.2017
Corbyn treats Isis, Hamas and the IRA the same - blaming us for their crimesThere is a paradoxical racism in his view that terrorists are only responsive to Western intervention....
23.05.2017
Corbyn will lose because we’re not all idealistic teenagersWhy isn't Jeremy heading for a victory? Because Labour's manifesto is an impossible spending wish-list....
16.05.2017
Even Remainers don’t like it when unpatriotic Lib Dems back Brussels against BrexitThe Lib Dem stance on Brexit appears anti-democratic to moderate, pragmatic Remain voters....
09.05.2017
Macron poses no threat to Brexit – but he might damage the EUThe French president Emmanuel Macron is a protectionist when it comes to the EU....
01.05.2017
The inconvenient truth about food banks: The rich are getting richer - and so are the poorFood banks are becoming the go-to prop for people who lack actual statistics....
01.05.2017
Marine Le Pen is winning votes by pushing rhetoric that caused France’s problemsProtectionism inflicts the greatest harm on the least well off – who are often, paradoxically, its supporters....
01.05.2017
Corbyn treats Isis, Hamas and the IRA the same - blaming us for their crimesWhen it comes to international relations, a lot of us think like egocentric teenagers. ...
24.04.2017
France must choose between a smug elitist and an angry nativistEmmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen represent France's political divide over globalisation....
17.04.2017
Why we aren’t heading for World War 3From the point of view of North Korea's tyrant Kim Jong-un, the nuclear programme has already worked....
11.04.2017
Truck attacks show that the terrorists are losingLet's take the terror out of terrorism. It's rare and it doesn't threaten our way of life....
05.04.2017
The EU knows winning Gibraltar back for Spain is far less important than a great Brexit dealIt's unlikely that other EU members would let a beneficial Brexit deal be scuppered by Spain....
27.03.2017
Leaving UKIP was inevitable for Douglas Carswell now Brexit is assuredDouglas Carswell, like many Ukippers, recognises the party has succeeded in its aims....
20.03.2017
Brexit is a chance to give powers back to Scotland and stop the push for independenceA constitutional convention after Britain leaves the EU could decentralise power across the UK....
13.03.2017
Scrap National Insurance so people can see just how much tax they really payPhilip Hammond is addressing a genuine problem with how the self-employed are taxed....
06.03.2017
Brexiteers never said EU nationals should be forced to leave BritainThe Lords are placing themselves at odds with public opinion, and are risking the survival of their House....
26.02.2017
Remainers don’t get it — Brexit isn’t an event, it’s a process to free us of pointless EU rulesBritain will over the course of years free itself from the EU's grip as it looks to the wider world....
20.02.2017
Tony Blair’s speech will only make Brexit negotiations harder for usIf he wanted to help, he would be addressing other EU leaders, rather than British voters, who despise him....
14.02.2017
The Left want to think our troops are barbarians - that’s why false Iraq war claims were believedSoldiers' lives were ruined and Britons were put at risk by Phil Shiner's vexatious claims about our armed forces....
06.02.2017
Marine Le Pen is winning votes by pushing rhetoric that caused France’s problemsProtectionism inflicts the greatest harm on the least well off – who are often, paradoxically, its supporters....
30.01.2017
Liberals are attacking Trump’s ban in the worst possible wayThey don't want the ban attacked on constitutional grounds. They just want to make it about them....
23.01.2017
Donald Trump’s enemies will keep him in powerThe Left wastes time hurling insults instead of addressing his questionable links....
16.01.2017
Brussels doesn’t hold all the cards - Brexit is a chance for the UK to trade with the worldBy talking down our prospects, the pessimists encourage Brussels intransigence, and make a deal less likely....
09.01.2017
Brexit economic experts are like medieval doctors with leeches - pseudoscience to trick the laymanMark Carney and City economists prophesied a 'technical recession' but Britain has grown faster since the vote....
28.12.2016
Read Watership Down as an adult – it’s so much more than a children’s storyNone of Adams' later books came close to its success, but my neighbour's great epic had true authenticity....
19.12.2016
Robots will take our jobs – but that’s good for the future of civilisationFear of unemployment as a result of mechanisation is not new. Our ancestors feared automation, too....
12.12.2016
Brexit looks like racism to the outside world - they need to be shown the truthBrexit might revive the stalled world trading system – but it's still depicted as a matter of immigration....
05.12.2016
Italy’s referendum shows people are fed up of being lied to by Europhile leadersIf voters are offered a choice between corporatist technocrats and angry populists, they pick the populists....
29.11.2016
Fidel Castro was a dictator –but the left is blind to human rights abuses when it’s one of their ownThere's a double-standard from people who, in other circumstances, think of themselves as democrats....
22.11.2016
Leavers won’t be bullied out of a Brexit by Remoaners or EurocratsTwo thirds of the officials and MEPs I talk to in Brussels believe that the decision will somehow be reversed....
15.11.2016
With Donald Trump in the White House, it falls on Britain to promote free tradeObama threatened to put us at the back of the queue for trade talks, but Trump says we'll be at the front....
07.11.2016
Forget Trump vs Clinton for a moment — the battle for Congress matters much moreWhoever wins the election will be boxed in by a sceptical Congress and dogged by the prospect of court cases....
31.10.2016
Mark Carney should stop playing politics over Brexit if he wants to keep his jobBank of England governors are supposed to be dull - not rock stars...
24.10.2016
My great-uncle fell at the Somme - we must not forget the ordinary men who did extraordinary thingsBill Hannan's name is recorded alongside 72,000 British and South African soldiers at at Thiepval...
17.10.2016
The Conservative ‘row’ over Philip Hammond is based on a false assumption about BrexitWe can leave the Single Market and still have the closest of links with our EU allies....
10.10.2016
Remainers who insist Brexit voters are racist create a self-fulfilling immigration prophecyBy insisting the vote was all about hostility to foreigners, Remainers push policy in that direction....
02.10.2016
Theresa May’s Great Repeal Act is not symbolic - it’s vital for British sovereigntyNow we know that Article 50 will go ahead, it is time for the UK to take back its sovereignty....
26.09.2016
Some kids are smarter than others – so why are grammar schools controversial?If we have sport or music schools, why shouldn't we have schools for academically gifted children?...
