11.09.2024
Ukraine can still winThe Kursk offensive is all about changing attitudes in Russia to the cost of the war...
01.09.2024
Never excuse riots - everIf Lefties now glory in crackdowns, good - conservatives have no business opposing them...
11.08.2024
We are reaching the point where tax can’t rise any moreLabour is about to relearn some basic economics lessons...
05.08.2024
However you vote, the Blob winsThe Tories tried, however ineffectually, to restrain their woke civil servants, but that's all over now...
10.07.2024
Three and a half centuries of Toryism are overIt seems a tad disproportionate, but there we are...
08.07.2024
No one mention the lockdowns!We rage at the politicians who carried out precisely what we demanded ...
28.06.2024
One party rule, here we comeNever before will we have had so lopsided a House of Commons...
20.06.2024
Creepy Keir StarmerIn saying that he would let a loved one suffer rather than use private medicine, the Labour leader has revealed how he thinks...
14.06.2024
We know we’ll regret it, but we’ll still put Labour inThe things that are upsetting us - high immigration, wasted taxes, unresponsive public services - will all get worse...
02.06.2024
Britain is a liberal outlier in fortress EuropeNeither side would have predicted it in 2016, but the UK is unique in not voting for the authoritarian Right...
26.05.2024
What if the students waved St George’s Crosses instead of PLO flags?We have come, tragically, to take the uneven application of the rules for granted...
16.05.2024
Ireland should join the Rwanda schemeBut it won't, because its leaders will always co-operate with the EU rather than Britain, whatever the cost...
08.05.2024
The SNP is in freefallBut Scottish separatism is not dependent on the fortunes of the separatist party...
02.05.2024
Who could object to Reform?When it comes to their aspirations, no one. When it comes to implementing them, on the other hand...
23.04.2024
Time to quit the ECHRIn imposing climate change policy on Switzerland, the Strasbourg Court has taken judicial activism to a new level...
11.04.2024
No, the parties are not all as bad as each otherFor 14 years, we have examined the Conservatives' every flaw and blemish, but barely looked at Labour...
08.04.2024
Everything has gone wrong for the Tories since they toppled BorisEvery time MPs switch leaders without an election, voters feel taken for granted...
02.04.2024
Sorry, WASPI ladies, we’re out of cashThere are also moral arguments against the WASPI campaign, but they are beside the point when there is no money left...
24.03.2024
Since lockdown, 500,000 people have been declared mentally unfit to workWhat lies behind the numbers? Long Lockdown, benefit fraud, or something else?...
15.03.2024
The Church of England adopts a new Trinity - Diversity, Equity, InclusionIts anti-historical posturing over slavery marks the birth of a new syncretic religion, intolerant and proselytising ...
02.03.2024
Jobs are a cost, not a benefitIt is bizarre to romanticise the miners strike, as though keeping men in that brutalising work were an end in itself...
26.02.2024
Russia is an organised crime gang with a state attachedPutin will carry on dealing death at home and abroad until he is stopped...
17.02.2024
How Labour will bankrupt BritainYou think Starmer is dull, sensible and moderately Blairite? Think again...
30.01.2024
We’re turning down trade deals for fear of upsetting the EUThere is no other explanation for our failure to agree an FTA with Morocco...
16.01.2024
Time to legalise cocaineEcuador is the latest country driven to the point of collapse by our war on drugs...
12.01.2024
The NHS is a global laughing stockDoctors threaten to emigrate, but never mention what makes other countries' healthcare systems more attractive...
04.01.2024
The man who pushed me into politicsBritish Euroscepticism had been moribund since 1975 - until Jacques Delors...
29.12.2023
We are heading for another Labour budget crisisThe money always runs out under Labour governments ...
20.12.2023
Wind up this ignorant, smug Covid InquiryIf the Lead Counsel doesn't know what QALY means, he has no business asking questions...
11.12.2023
What if Russia wins?If Ukraine loses territory, the entire Western order will suffer an unprecedented loss...
21.11.2023
The Pax Americana is breaking apartAuthoritarianism, protectionism and conflict are all on the rise in consequence...
12.11.2023
How like a godIt is exactly 400 years since the greatest act of literary salvage in history...
06.11.2023
The cretinous Covid inquiryBiased, trivial and dim, the inquiry is demonstrating the state failings it is meant to be investigating...
02.11.2023
The biggest threat to our security? DebtAround the world, governments have been unable to turn off the supposedly emergency spending that accompanied the lockdowns...
23.10.2023
An age of conflicts loomsIlliberal regimes of every kind, from Islamist to Marxist, are uniting against the West. Pick a side...
17.10.2023
Hamas means what it saysWesterners need to stop projecting their own moderate goals on to the terrorist group...
08.10.2023
Sir Keir, you are no Sir TonyStarmer is obviously taking lessons from Blair on how to campaign, but he is likelier to end as another Callaghan...
02.10.2023
Rishi Sunak is a proper conservativeIt may be too late to win the election, but how refreshing to see the PM halt the expansion of the state...
25.09.2023
The EU’s “associate membership” scheme is seven years too lateBrussels missed its moment in 2016, and both sides in Britain are now too polarised...
19.09.2023
The real axis of evilRussia and North Korea represent the past from which humanity has, thank God, escaped...
17.09.2023
The reasonable remainersNot every Tory moderate became a Euro-nostalgic loon; some of them stayed sensible...
05.09.2023
Why is a Tory government funding anti-Tory activists?When taxes are at record levels, why are we borrowing even more money to give to Leftist pressure groups?...
30.08.2023
International support for Putin is a product of twisted anti-colonialismToday's woke activists are, without realising it, parroting Cold War era Soviet propaganda...
26.08.2023
Driven mad by BrexitPeter Foster, a perfectly sensible man in real life, has become a screeching loon when it comes to the EU...
22.08.2023
The Bank of England has ruined usThe splurge of money-printing since 2009 has prevented the economy from growing...
16.08.2023
The BMA is more interested in bashing Tories than helping doctorsA measure of private provision would benefit NHS workers more than anyone, but their unions oppose it on principle...
10.08.2023
Starmer won’t scrap the House of LordsHe'll focus on giving the vote to 16-year-olds and EU nationals instead...
04.08.2023
Never mind Americans - we are poorer than SlovenesBritain's leaders refuse to recognise our problems - excess money-printing, the NHS, over-regulation, planning restrictions...
25.07.2023
The last days of Vladimir PutinWe need to prepare for the fragmentation that will follow...
12.07.2023
Tories refuse to accept Rishi Sunak’s Eurosceptic credentialsHe may have voted Leave but, unlike Boris and Liz, he looks like the CEO of a big multinational...
04.07.2023
Whatever you do, don’t call it a kangaroo courtThe sovereignty of Parliament should be a means to defend the sovereignty of the people, not the hurt feelings of MPs...
26.06.2023
The beginning of the end for PutinPutin's analogy with 1917 was apter than he intended, for Russia is on the verge of dissolution...
19.06.2023
The COVID Inquiry is a jokeIt is refusing to ask the only question that matters, namely did lockdowns work...
11.06.2023
What kind of country turfs out its leader over uneaten cake?Europhile grandees, not least civil servants, were out to get Boris from the start...
04.06.2023
Socialism is losing all across EuropeBritain is exceptional in that the traditional party of the Left remains viable...
28.05.2023
Until we face up to the needless horror of the lockdowns, we won’t move onThree years have passed since the end of the first lockdown, and we can't bear the thought that the sacrifices were for nothing...
21.05.2023
The conservative coalition is falling apartEconomic liberals and cultural conservatives, pushed together by the Cold War, are going their separate ways...
15.05.2023
We need more babiesWithout them, the ratio of pensioners to workers will become unsustainable...
09.05.2023
Mill thou shouldst be living at this hourJ.S. Mill's liberalism looks more and more like an accidental interregnum between two kinds of despotism...
03.05.2023
We keep choosing to make ourselves poorerNo politician will risk bad headlines in pursuit of long-term growth...
24.04.2023
Bringing ministers down by pseudo-legal means is faintly Latin AmericanDominic Raab was never going to get justice once he had been accused by politicised cyrbullies in the civil service...
17.04.2023
Macron fractures the free worldIn pursuit of EU "strategic autonomy", Euro-integrationists are abandoning Taiwan...
09.04.2023
When it comes to slavery, we British were the goodiesEvery civilisation traded in human beings - until the UK decided to end the foul business...
29.03.2023
The Boris investigation is a travestyPoliticians should not get to decide which other politicians stay in office...
21.03.2023
The lockdowns were deadlier than the diseaseSweden had the lowest excess mortality rate in Europe - a terrible refutation of the case for locking down...
11.03.2023
Cancel culture is always wrong - including for LinekerHe can be as stupid, obnoxious and juvenile as he likes, provided he keeps it separate from his work...
05.03.2023
Hundreds more Sue Grays are working against the ToriesThe civil service is institutionally statist, Europhile and woke, and no one seems to care...
26.02.2023
Crunch-time for Northern IrelandResolve the Northern Ireland Protocol and UK-EU relations will improve across the board...
21.02.2023
Scottish separatism is not dead yetNicola Sturgeon's fall is a setback, but the trashing of the British brand continues...
13.02.2023
Our uncivil mastersBritain's administrative machine is woke, expensive and, worst of all, inept...
06.02.2023
We would rather ruin ourselves than raise the pension ageIf we stuck to Lloyd George's actuarial formula, state pensions would kick in at around 100...
29.01.2023
How Rejoiners plan to undo BrexitNot with an immediate referendum, but with slow reintegration until membership can be presented as the natural next step...
23.01.2023
Voters finally begin to understand the damage done by lockdownsYou'd never imagine it from the tributes, but Jacinda Ardern was behind in the polls and falling further...
16.01.2023
The Elgin Marbles belong to all humanity - which is why they should remain in LondonThe idea of collective ownership is illiberal, and should not trump property rights or free contract...
10.01.2023
Our least bad option now is to push for total Russian defeatAnything short of a Ukrainian victory is a Russian victory - which would be disastrous for the international order...
03.01.2023
2022 was the year that killed my rational optimismIt wasn't so much the lockdowns as the demand for the lockdowns that convinced me that illiberalism is coming...
27.12.2022
Christmas thoughts on deporting illegal immigrantsIt's easy to list the flaws in the Rwanda scheme; it's harder to come up with an alternative...
19.12.2022
Britain has lurched to the Left since the last Labour governmentThe banking crisis, social media, woke and the lockdowns have all moved the centre of gravity...
12.12.2022
Gordon Brown prescribes more of the medicine that sickened the patientBritain does need more devolution - but the way to get there is not through more quangos and salaried politicians...
05.12.2022
Anti-Britishness is on the rise - especially in BritainClimate reparations, repatriation of museum artefacts, statue-smashing, separatism - all have the same root cause...
28.11.2022
Brexit is slipping awayWe missed our chance to join EFTA, and now we have no option but to diverge...
07.11.2022
The preposterous myth of libertarian BritainTaxes and spending are higher then ever, and free-market think tanks have never been weaker...
23.10.2022
This can’t go onWhoever wins, the case for an early election will become irresistible ...
17.10.2022
Better to go down fightingIf Conservative MPs are not prepared to cut taxes and spending, they might as well hand over to Labour...
09.10.2022
The cowardice of the anti-Truss rebelsIt is somehow considered unacceptably Right-wing to return to Blair's tax rates...
04.10.2022
Why free markets are always unpopularOur palaeolithic instincts incline us to egalitarianism, authoritarianism and envy ...
01.10.2022
Sunak is almost out of optionsBut here are five things he could realistically do before the election...
25.09.2022
Best. Budget. Ever.It feels as if the Conservatives are back after 23 years in Opposition...
19.09.2022
Cap bankers’ bonuses or grow the economy - pick oneThe cap was imposed by the EU in an openly anti-London move, yet it has taken us until now to scrap it...
11.09.2022
The case for constitutional monarchyAn umpire whose legitimacy is beyond question is the surest defence against civil war...
29.08.2022
We really are back to the 1970s - even the Tories are promoting big governmentBut might they be about to pick a market-oriented woman to lead them in a different direction?...
