02.10.2024

This has done for Labour

They don't realise it yet, but the early prisoner releases have finished their government...

The Telegraph

23.09.2024

We’re going to hell in a handcart

Labour isn't engaging in cynical economic populism, it genuinely believes this rubbish...

The Telegraph

21.09.2024

Labour’s abject approach to the EU

Britain's proposed concessions are being treated as requests...

The Telegraph


11.09.2024

Ukraine can still win

The Kursk offensive is all about changing attitudes in Russia to the cost of the war...

The Telegraph

07.09.2024

Brexit is working

Our economy has not performed as badly as those in the EU...

The Telegraph

01.09.2024

Never excuse riots - ever

If Lefties now glory in crackdowns, good - conservatives have no business opposing them...

The Telegraph


23.08.2024

Shortest. Honeymoon. Ever.

We knew Labour would mess up, but the speed is shocking...

The Telegraph

11.08.2024

We are reaching the point where tax can’t rise any more

Labour is about to relearn some basic economics lessons...

The Telegraph

05.08.2024

However you vote, the Blob wins

The Tories tried, however ineffectually, to restrain their woke civil servants, but that's all over now...

The Telegraph


28.07.2024

My choice for next Tory leader

Here are the things I'm looking for...

The Telegraph

22.07.2024

Can a deal be done with Farage?

The Reform leader does not do compromise...

The Telegraph

18.07.2024

Unite the Right

The way back for the Tories runs through Reform...

The Telegraph


10.07.2024

Three and a half centuries of Toryism are over

It seems a tad disproportionate, but there we are...

The Telegraph

08.07.2024

No one mention the lockdowns!

We rage at the politicians who carried out precisely what we demanded ...

The Telegraph

28.06.2024

One party rule, here we come

Never before will we have had so lopsided a House of Commons...

The Telegraph


20.06.2024

Creepy Keir Starmer

In saying that he would let a loved one suffer rather than use private medicine, the Labour leader has revealed how he thinks...

The Telegraph

14.06.2024

We know we’ll regret it, but we’ll still put Labour in

The things that are upsetting us - high immigration, wasted taxes, unresponsive public services - will all get worse...

The Telegraph

10.06.2024

If you can keep it

The American republic is collapsing before our eyes...

The Telegraph


02.06.2024

Britain is a liberal outlier in fortress Europe

Neither side would have predicted it in 2016, but the UK is unique in not voting for the authoritarian Right...

The Telegraph

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...

The Telegraph

16.05.2024

Ireland should join the Rwanda scheme

But it won't, because its leaders will always co-operate with the EU rather than Britain, whatever the cost...

The Telegraph


08.05.2024

The SNP is in freefall

But Scottish separatism is not dependent on the fortunes of the separatist party...

The Telegraph

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...

The Telegraph

23.04.2024

Time to quit the ECHR

In imposing climate change policy on Switzerland, the Strasbourg Court has taken judicial activism to a new level...

The Telegraph


11.04.2024

No, the parties are not all as bad as each other

For 14 years, we have examined the Conservatives' every flaw and blemish, but barely looked at Labour...

The Telegraph

08.04.2024

Everything has gone wrong for the Tories since they toppled Boris

Every time MPs switch leaders without an election, voters feel taken for granted...

The Telegraph

02.04.2024

Sorry, WASPI ladies, we’re out of cash

There are also moral arguments against the WASPI campaign, but they are beside the point when there is no money left...

The Telegraph


24.03.2024

Since lockdown, 500,000 people have been declared mentally unfit to work

What lies behind the numbers? Long Lockdown, benefit fraud, or something else?...

The Telegraph

15.03.2024

The Church of England adopts a new Trinity - Diversity, Equity, Inclusion

Its anti-historical posturing over slavery marks the birth of a new syncretic religion, intolerant and proselytising ...

The Telegraph

06.03.2024

We need a British Milei

Sadly, things will have to get worse before we realise it...

The Telegraph


02.03.2024

Jobs are a cost, not a benefit

It is bizarre to romanticise the miners strike, as though keeping men in that brutalising work were an end in itself...

The Telegraph

26.02.2024

Russia is an organised crime gang with a state attached

Putin will carry on dealing death at home and abroad until he is stopped...

The Telegraph

17.02.2024

How Labour will bankrupt Britain

You think Starmer is dull, sensible and moderately Blairite? Think again...

The Telegraph


08.02.2024

Get ready for World War Three

Si vis pacem, para bellum...

The Telegraph

30.01.2024

We’re turning down trade deals for fear of upsetting the EU

There is no other explanation for our failure to agree an FTA with Morocco...

The Telegraph

24.01.2024

Davos defeated

Javier Milei told our lizardman overlords a few home truths...

The Telegraph


16.01.2024

Time to legalise cocaine

Ecuador is the latest country driven to the point of collapse by our war on drugs...

The Telegraph

12.01.2024

The NHS is a global laughing stock

Doctors threaten to emigrate, but never mention what makes other countries' healthcare systems more attractive...

The Telegraph

04.01.2024

The man who pushed me into politics

British Euroscepticism had been moribund since 1975 - until Jacques Delors...

The Telegraph


29.12.2023

We are heading for another Labour budget crisis

The money always runs out under Labour governments ...

The Telegraph

20.12.2023

Wind up this ignorant, smug Covid Inquiry

If the Lead Counsel doesn't know what QALY means, he has no business asking questions...

The Telegraph

11.12.2023

What if Russia wins?

If Ukraine loses territory, the entire Western order will suffer an unprecedented loss...

The Telegraph


21.11.2023

The Pax Americana is breaking apart

Authoritarianism, protectionism and conflict are all on the rise in consequence...

The Telegraph

12.11.2023

How like a god

It is exactly 400 years since the greatest act of literary salvage in history...

The Telegraph

06.11.2023

The cretinous Covid inquiry

Biased, trivial and dim, the inquiry is demonstrating the state failings it is meant to be investigating...

The Telegraph


02.11.2023

The biggest threat to our security? Debt

Around the world, governments have been unable to turn off the supposedly emergency spending that accompanied the lockdowns...

The Telegraph

23.10.2023

An age of conflicts looms

Illiberal regimes of every kind, from Islamist to Marxist, are uniting against the West. Pick a side...

The Telegraph

17.10.2023

Hamas means what it says

Westerners need to stop projecting their own moderate goals on to the terrorist group...

The Telegraph


08.10.2023

Sir Keir, you are no Sir Tony

Starmer is obviously taking lessons from Blair on how to campaign, but he is likelier to end as another Callaghan...

The Telegraph

02.10.2023

Rishi Sunak is a proper conservative

It may be too late to win the election, but how refreshing to see the PM halt the expansion of the state...

The Telegraph

25.09.2023

The EU’s “associate membership” scheme is seven years too late

Brussels missed its moment in 2016, and both sides in Britain are now too polarised...

The Telegraph


19.09.2023

The real axis of evil

Russia and North Korea represent the past from which humanity has, thank God, escaped...

The Telegraph

17.09.2023

The reasonable remainers

Not every Tory moderate became a Euro-nostalgic loon; some of them stayed sensible...

The Telegraph

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?...

The Telegraph


30.08.2023

International support for Putin is a product of twisted anti-colonialism

Today's woke activists are, without realising it, parroting Cold War era Soviet propaganda...

The Telegraph

26.08.2023

Driven mad by Brexit

Peter Foster, a perfectly sensible man in real life, has become a screeching loon when it comes to the EU...

The Telegraph

22.08.2023

The Bank of England has ruined us

The splurge of money-printing since 2009 has prevented the economy from growing...

The Telegraph


16.08.2023

The BMA is more interested in bashing Tories than helping doctors

A measure of private provision would benefit NHS workers more than anyone, but their unions oppose it on principle...

The Telegraph

10.08.2023

Starmer won’t scrap the House of Lords

He'll focus on giving the vote to 16-year-olds and EU nationals instead...

The Telegraph

04.08.2023

Never mind Americans - we are poorer than Slovenes

Britain's leaders refuse to recognise our problems - excess money-printing, the NHS, over-regulation, planning restrictions...

The Telegraph


25.07.2023

The last days of Vladimir Putin

We need to prepare for the fragmentation that will follow...

The Telegraph

12.07.2023

Tories refuse to accept Rishi Sunak’s Eurosceptic credentials

He may have voted Leave but, unlike Boris and Liz, he looks like the CEO of a big multinational...

The Telegraph

04.07.2023

Whatever you do, don’t call it a kangaroo court

The sovereignty of Parliament should be a means to defend the sovereignty of the people, not the hurt feelings of MPs...

The Telegraph


26.06.2023

The beginning of the end for Putin

Putin's analogy with 1917 was apter than he intended, for Russia is on the verge of dissolution...

The Telegraph

19.06.2023

The COVID Inquiry is a joke

It is refusing to ask the only question that matters, namely did lockdowns work...

The Telegraph

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...

The Telegraph


04.06.2023

Socialism is losing all across Europe

Britain is exceptional in that the traditional party of the Left remains viable...

The Telegraph

28.05.2023

Until we face up to the needless horror of the lockdowns, we won’t move on

Three years have passed since the end of the first lockdown, and we can't bear the thought that the sacrifices were for nothing...

The Telegraph

21.05.2023

The conservative coalition is falling apart

Economic liberals and cultural conservatives, pushed together by the Cold War, are going their separate ways...

The Telegraph


15.05.2023

We need more babies

Without them, the ratio of pensioners to workers will become unsustainable...

The Telegraph

09.05.2023

Mill thou shouldst be living at this hour

J.S. Mill's liberalism looks more and more like an accidental interregnum between two kinds of despotism...

The Telegraph

03.05.2023

We keep choosing to make ourselves poorer

No politician will risk bad headlines in pursuit of long-term growth...

The Telegraph


24.04.2023

Bringing ministers down by pseudo-legal means is faintly Latin American

Dominic Raab was never going to get justice once he had been accused by politicised cyrbullies in the civil service...

The Telegraph

17.04.2023

Macron fractures the free world

In pursuit of EU "strategic autonomy", Euro-integrationists are abandoning Taiwan...

The Telegraph

09.04.2023

When it comes to slavery, we British were the goodies

Every civilisation traded in human beings - until the UK decided to end the foul business...

The Telegraph


29.03.2023

The Boris investigation is a travesty

Politicians should not get to decide which other politicians stay in office...

The Telegraph

21.03.2023

The lockdowns were deadlier than the disease

Sweden had the lowest excess mortality rate in Europe - a terrible refutation of the case for locking down...

The Telegraph

11.03.2023

Cancel culture is always wrong - including for Lineker

He can be as stupid, obnoxious and juvenile as he likes, provided he keeps it separate from his work...

The Telegraph


05.03.2023

Hundreds more Sue Grays are working against the Tories

The civil service is institutionally statist, Europhile and woke, and no one seems to care...

The Telegraph

26.02.2023

Crunch-time for Northern Ireland

Resolve the Northern Ireland Protocol and UK-EU relations will improve across the board...

The Telegraph

21.02.2023

Scottish separatism is not dead yet

Nicola Sturgeon's fall is a setback, but the trashing of the British brand continues...

The Telegraph


13.02.2023

Our uncivil masters

Britain's administrative machine is woke, expensive and, worst of all, inept...

The Telegraph

06.02.2023

We would rather ruin ourselves than raise the pension age

If we stuck to Lloyd George's actuarial formula, state pensions would kick in at around 100...

The Telegraph

29.01.2023

How Rejoiners plan to undo Brexit

Not with an immediate referendum, but with slow reintegration until membership can be presented as the natural next step...

The Telegraph


23.01.2023

Voters finally begin to understand the damage done by lockdowns

You'd never imagine it from the tributes, but Jacinda Ardern was behind in the polls and falling further...

The Telegraph

16.01.2023

The Elgin Marbles belong to all humanity - which is why they should remain in London

The idea of collective ownership is illiberal, and should not trump property rights or free contract...

The Telegraph

10.01.2023

Our least bad option now is to push for total Russian defeat

Anything short of a Ukrainian victory is a Russian victory - which would be disastrous for the international order...

The Telegraph


03.01.2023

2022 was the year that killed my rational optimism

It wasn't so much the lockdowns as the demand for the lockdowns that convinced me that illiberalism is coming...

The Telegraph

27.12.2022

Christmas thoughts on deporting illegal immigrants

It's easy to list the flaws in the Rwanda scheme; it's harder to come up with an alternative...

The Telegraph

19.12.2022

Britain has lurched to the Left since the last Labour government

The banking crisis, social media, woke and the lockdowns have all moved the centre of gravity...

The Telegraph


12.12.2022

Gordon Brown prescribes more of the medicine that sickened the patient

Britain does need more devolution - but the way to get there is not through more quangos and salaried politicians...

The Telegraph

05.12.2022

Anti-Britishness is on the rise - especially in Britain

Climate reparations, repatriation of museum artefacts, statue-smashing, separatism - all have the same root cause...

The Telegraph

28.11.2022

Brexit is slipping away

We missed our chance to join EFTA, and now we have no option but to diverge...

The Telegraph


07.11.2022

The preposterous myth of libertarian Britain

Taxes and spending are higher then ever, and free-market think tanks have never been weaker...

The Telegraph

23.10.2022

This can’t go on

Whoever wins, the case for an early election will become irresistible ...

The Telegraph

17.10.2022

Better to go down fighting

If Conservative MPs are not prepared to cut taxes and spending, they might as well hand over to Labour...

The Telegraph


09.10.2022

The cowardice of the anti-Truss rebels

It is somehow considered unacceptably Right-wing to return to Blair's tax rates...

The Telegraph

04.10.2022

Why free markets are always unpopular

Our palaeolithic instincts incline us to egalitarianism, authoritarianism and envy ...

The Telegraph

01.10.2022

Sunak is almost out of options

But here are five things he could realistically do before the election...

The Telegraph


25.09.2022

Best. Budget. Ever.

It feels as if the Conservatives are back after 23 years in Opposition...

The Telegraph

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