Daniel Toft
Daniel Toft works for the Friends of the British Overseas Territories. He posts at @DanielJToft
Change is afoot in the Falkland Islands
Falkland Islanders are showing that their future is theirs alone to decide
Why the Budget was bad news for Gibraltar
The government is still neglecting the needs of British Overseas Territories
Why can’t we let the Chagossians go home?
The majority of the displaced islanders remain loyal to the Crown and still hope to return
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
