06.07.2021
The world over, we are giving up on liberal democracyProcess is subordinated to a preferred outcome, and no one cares about the rules any more...
28.06.2021
Britain is the Anglosphere outlier in its attachment to lockdownEver since 1940, we have been more authoritarian than our daughter nations...
25.06.2021
The green jobs fallacyGovernments can't "create" jobs - at least, not without destroying other jobs...
19.06.2021
The Anglo-American alliance: still making the world safe 80 years onRenewing the Atlantic Charter was a reminder that freedom is guaranteed by the Anglosphere in arms...
07.06.2021
When did we decide to make big businesses our moral arbiters?An entrepreneur is already behaving morally by running a profitable company...
01.06.2021
Trade sanctions won’t work against Belarus - or anyone elseEither topple the regime or learn to live with it, but don't imagine that an economic embargo will make the slightest difference...
24.05.2021
Now the woke come after imperial unitsIf any system was imposed by force, it was metrication - but we are way past logic here...
18.05.2021
What’s wrong with Anglo-Saxon values?Thomas Jefferson was right: the roots of modern liberty stretch back to pre-Norman England...
10.05.2021
Why Northern Ireland will endureIrish republicans chose maximum distance from Britain over accommodating Ulster's identity...
03.05.2021
Ghislaine Maxwell is as entitled as anyone else to the presumption of innocenceBad people - perhaps bad people especially - deserve justice...
26.04.2021
Communism is back - thanks to CovidPeru is set to become the first country to elect a Marxist with a majority in peacetime. But it won't be the last...
22.04.2021
Diversity training makes things worseIt isn't just useless - it actually implants new biases and grievances...
14.04.2021
It’s official - ethnic minorities flourish in BritainRace professionals are struggling to keep up their claim that things are getting worse...
06.04.2021
Cancel culture only ever applies in one directionMichel Foucault will remain a woke icon, despite revelations that he abused young Arab boys...
29.03.2021
Why do some deaths matter more than others? Because of the lockdownsCooped up off school and off work, we seize on tragic events and try to build them into something bigger...
26.03.2021
Brussels goes full ChávezExpropriating stock, seizing factories, breaking laws - and all to cover its own mistakes...
15.03.2021
Victimhood trumps everything - decency, consistency, honesty, the lotClaim to belong to an oppressed group and no one will want to challenge your version of events...
10.03.2021
And then they came for Dr SeussHe might have had impeccable liberal credentials, but our woke inquisitors don't care about things like that...
01.03.2021
The woke have met their match in ShakespeareAttempts to find racism in the corpus diminishes those seeking it, not the corpus...
23.02.2021
Minimum wages hurt the poorA better way to raise living standards for the least well off is to cut taxes on employment and investment, and so create jobs...
15.02.2021
Nationalists without being patriotsWestern democracies are losing ground to authoritarianism - globally and domestically...
09.02.2021
The more time we spend online, the angrier and more extreme we becomeOn Brexit, Trump and the lockdowns, I have gone from being extreme to being wet without altering my views...
01.02.2021
Maybe Americans will finally understand what Brexit was really aboutIt is the EU, not Britain, that is the populist, protectionist rogue state...
25.01.2021
Does the label “genocide” make anything better?We should be wary of collectivising people in death, as in life...
18.01.2021
The solution to America’s culture war is radical decentralisationThe two tribes are now so far apart, and so geographically clustered, that there is no way of bridging the gap...
13.01.2021
The republic will survive Trump - but will the Republicans?The GOP must break cleanly with the man who came late and malevolently to the party...
21.12.2020
The woke will stop at nothing in pursuit of their demented cultural revolutionJulie Burchill, a provocatrice hired to write a provocative book, has it cancelled - fore being too provocative ...
15.12.2020
If there were a way to make wealth taxes work, some country would have found it by nowYou can only confiscate present wealth, not future wealth - and future wealth won't be created if it's subject to confiscation...
09.12.2020
The day is coming when we will wonder how anyone could eat an animalClean meat will free up vast tracts of land and reduce carbon emissions...
30.11.2020
Why the United States should join the CPTPPPulling out of the Pacific trade deal opened the door to Chinese hegemony...
23.11.2020
Irish America clings to quarrels now largely forgotten in Ireland itselfThe tragic circumstances of the migration made the US different from other diaspora communities...
17.11.2020
GOP leaders know that Trump has lost - but they won’t say so out loudThe president's peevishness is harming the Republicans and undermining the Republic...
09.11.2020
One thing distinguishes the United States from Latin America - the rule of lawThose who refuse to accept an election result because they resent the outcome are endangering American exceptionalism...
02.11.2020
Commentators are over-compensating, refusing the believe the signs that Biden will winAs with Britain in 2019, the polls may turn out to have been right all along...
26.10.2020
The world that lies beyond the lockdowns will be an uglier and more authoritarian onePower has shifted to the autocracies, and even in the West liberalism is in retreat...
20.10.2020
It’s Kang versus Kodos, a knave or a fool, a fantasist Falstaff against a senescent LearWhoever wins the 2020 presidential election, America is heading in a darker direction...
12.10.2020
Sweden has demolished the case for the lockdownLow population density? Economic hit? Higher death rate than Finland? All utterly irrelevant...
06.10.2020
A war out of a comic novelThe Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has a Gilbert and Sullivan quality...
28.09.2020
Hume, Voltaire, Kant, Darwin - identity politics is turning on the men who made the EnlightenmentAn irrationalist creed is now openly attacking logic and science as white male baggage...
21.09.2020
Joe Biden’s ignorance about Northern Ireland jeopardises the Atlantic AllianceThe Democrat, who has long flirted with extreme republicanism, is threatening the UK over a complete non-issue...
14.09.2020
Sweden’s strategy is working - which suggests that the rest of us ruined ourselves needlesslyThe Swedish counter-example means lockdown enthusiasts can't claim that things would otherwise have been worse...
07.09.2020
If the presidential election is close, the losers won’t accept the resultCivil wars happen, not when people disagree about what should be done, but when they disagree about who has the right to do it...
31.08.2020
Canada’s new Conservative leader speaks to and for the common sense majorityErin O'Toole wants to lead Canada back to the heart of the Western alliance...
25.08.2020
Americans no longer care about the rule of lawWhat is howled down as an abuse from the other side is cheered from your own - an attitude incompatible with liberal democracy...
10.08.2020
Victimhood does not confer virtueJohn Hume was no better, morally, than his Unionist opponents; but he happened to represent the side seen as the underdog...
03.08.2020
No country is perfect, but the notion that slavery was a peculiarly American vice is ridiculousWhen people say they want to study American history "warts and all", they often want to look only at the warts...
27.07.2020
Twitter has infected older media with its angry, aggressive, infuriating toneSocial media give us what we secretly want: opinion presented as news, moralising assertions, confirmation bias...
20.07.2020
We have inverted the old liberal ideal - skin colour should matter no more than hair colourThe NYT's logic is that two American babies born on the same day arrive with pre-existing grievances against each other...
14.07.2020
The silent majority is always bigger than you thinkVoters hate disorder more than anything else. The BLM unrest might just have put Trump back in the game...
06.07.2020
After years of building its strength, China has chosen this moment to strikeSnuffing out Hong Kong's freedoms is a clear breach of China's international commitments and a challenge to the world ...
29.06.2020
Why do the few conservatives who criticise Donald Trump attract such vitriol?Could it be that they are the GOP's bad conscience, a reminder of what used to be mainstream conservative values?...
23.06.2020
Big Tech plus Big Government equals an unholy corporatist racketHave you ever wondered why tech companies spend a fortune on hiring ex-pols like Nick Clegg?...
15.06.2020
What have London statues to do with Minneapolis police?The assumption that people in different countries are defined primarily by skin colour is a curious one...
08.06.2020
It was bound to end in violenceNo one disputes that George Floyd's death was atrocious, so the only way to stand out is to be angrier than anyone else...
05.06.2020
The irrational lockdown contagionWhy did so many countries impose mass quarantines? For the same reason that people in Columbus Ohio started running in 1913....
25.05.2020
Trump’s supporters expected something a little more authoritarianThe President's uncharacteristically laissez-faire approach may end up being right, but it is costing him support....
18.05.2020
What if it has all been for nothing?The idea that we may have needlessly destroyed lives and livelihoods is almost too awful to contemplate....
13.05.2020
Time for a British-American Free Trade AgreementAt a time like this, we need to pull every lever we can....
04.05.2020
Seven trends the virus will accelerate and three it will haltBigger government, stronger China, harder borders, more debt, less freedom....
29.04.2020
There is so far little correlation between the strictness of a lockdown and the infection rateHuman psychology rather than epidemiology is behind the crackdowns ...
20.04.2020
The virus has made us more authoritarian - and there is no reason to think we’ll change backOur politics will change malignly and permanently. Big Government is back....
10.04.2020
A lot of non-religious people are suddenly prayingYou'd think a virus would undermine belief in a benign Maker, but the effect seems to be the opposite....
06.04.2020
We will look back with false nostalgia on these wretched timesWe'll remember the quiet skies and the family meals, not the poverty and the privation....
30.03.2020
Might the isolation measures eventually cause as many fatalities as the virus?It's the grim calculation that no one likes to talk about....
25.03.2020
We are all socialists nowThe real test is how quickly we can lift these unprecedented restrictions on our freedom...
16.03.2020
There is no case for restricting international travelOur hunter-gatherer genomes make us fear strangers, but the virus is already global...
09.03.2020
British and American politics often move in lockstep - and that should alarm usDon't assume that Bernie would be Corbyn 2019 rather than Corbyn 2017...
03.03.2020
Is India in the Anglosphere?India could be the West's most powerful ally, but only if it continues to liberalise....
24.02.2020
There’s a reason that the movement of population in the Americas is almost all one wayIt's the United States, not Latin America, that is the outlier: it has, unusually, elevated production over predation....
17.02.2020
Getting the votes doesn’t make you a democratImagine a Sinn Féin politician muttering to a parliamentary opponent "We know where your daughter goes to school"....
14.02.2020
75 years ago, we lost the war - or, at least, we let Stalin win itWe inflicted two generations of misery on hundreds of millions of Europeans ...
27.01.2020
Never mind 1619: the real American story was 1620, and the ornery individualism of the PilgrimsThat an anti-Catholic sect ended up creating the first truly pluralist nation is little short of miraculous...
16.01.2020
Sir Roger Scruton, 1944-2020Professor Sir Roger Scruton, who died Jan. 11, was the greatest conservative of our era....
13.01.2020
Soleimani’s death fits Trump’s desire for orderly withdrawal from the Middle EastThere are withdrawals, and then, there are withdrawals....
06.01.2020
Academia spearheads the return of race-sortingIs it acceptable to restrict academic scholarship to members of particular racial groups? ...
16.12.2019
Why Putin will never be a friendWhat does Vladimir Putin want? It is hard to read much into his flat, high-cheekboned face. ...
09.12.2019
Will the Brexit Party prevent Brexit?Here is a paradox. The Brexit Party, despite its name, cannot deliver Brexit, but might yet prevent it....
02.12.2019
Jeremy Corbyn is campaigning like Trump did, and he’s hoping for a similar surprise winNext week’s general election in the United Kingdom ought to have been a slam dunk. ...
25.11.2019
Why the Holocaust is more than just another genocideThe easy reaction is outrage. How dare Roger Hallam, the founder of Extinction Rebellion, seek to downplay the Holocaust?...
11.11.2019
Milton Friedman’s arguments will never ageFairlee, Vermont — At the top of a steep hill here stands a green hexagonal cottage....
04.11.2019
Boris will win, and Britain will at last move onFor the fourth time in as many years, the United Kingdom is going to the polls....
28.10.2019
Why is ‘Mr. Brexit’ concentrating his tariffs on the UK?Tariffs always cause the most damage to the country that imposes them....
22.10.2019
Voter fraud is a real thing, even in BritainIn 2005, a British high court judge stunned the nation by pointing to “electoral fraud that would disgrace a banana republic” ...
22.10.2019
Voter fraud is a real thing, even in BritainIn 2005, a British high court judge stunned the nation by pointing to “electoral fraud that would disgrace a banana republic” ...
10.10.2019
Kindness, the last defense against totalitarianismWhen I saw in the news that the University of California...
03.10.2019
As Iran-Saudi tensions rise, the US should stay out of itWe all know what is wrong with Iran. It is a repressive theocracy and a rogue state....
26.09.2019
Boris, Brexit, and the politicization of Britain’s judiciaryA politicized court rules against an elected government. ...
19.09.2019
A dim-witted war on vapingMy teenage daughter vapes. She half-heartedly tries to hide it from me, but parents are rarely as slow-witted ...
16.09.2019
The clearest sign John Bolton was doing his jobThe London studio used by Fox News just happens to be in the same building, and I had asked John in after bumping into him on th...
04.09.2019
There will still be an election in the UK, and Brexit will still happenLife in Britain is pretty great right now. ...
26.08.2019
Americans already think plenty about slaveryAmericans don’t think enough about slavery? Seriously? ...
08.08.2019
The EU’s last ultimatum on Brexit is intended to failImagine that Donald Trump wanted to reopen trade talks with the European Union....
11.07.2019
Democratic presidential candidates are turning into gloom merchantsThe United States is the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world. ...
08.07.2019
Bring on Brexit, because we’re losing our minds waitingAny lingering reputation the British had in Europe for being understated ...
20.06.2019
Something is amiss in the tribalist GOPWhat would you say is the primary task of a U.S. congressman?...
13.06.2019
Why South America’s prospects are looking upMy career as a financial tipster lasted only a few seconds...
