Ben Hopkinson
Ben Hopkinson is Head of Housing and Infrastructure at the Centre for Policy Studies. He tweets at @ben_a_hopkinson
London needs more homes, and it needs them soon
Regulations and inertia are making London impossible to build in
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
The delusions of the DCMS
The establishment approach to the internet is marked by paranoia and control
The state enablers of the Stade shooting
A fatal shooting in Germany illuminated more than one man
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
