Chris Bayliss

Chris Bayliss is a Contributing Editor of The Critic and an independent consultant whose main interest is the energy sector in Iraq. He tweets at @baylissbaghdad

Iran, insurance and how smart people lose sight of the truth

Opportunistic attacks on expatriates in Dubai are ignorant and obnoxious

The right is in danger of missing the point about the changing nature of British democracy

The refusal of the public procurement system to behave reasonably is not an excuse to destroy Parliament

Our political establishment is consumed by tedious exercises in status-signalling

He rallies foreign liberals and left-wingers around their leaders

Reform needs to pick hundreds of candidates who are ruthless politically, but not lunatics

The opportunity to change with the times has been decisively lost

Twitter — or X if you must — is essential for bypassing traditional institutions

Why we learn so miserably little from the British press