Budget 2021: What did we get?
Rishi goes back to tax and spend
Budget 2021: What we’re expecting
Tax rises and handouts, everything we (think) we know is coming
Carrie’s war
Love me, love my curtains
A red wall budget?
The Northern Research Group’s demands to the Chancellor
The Government’s NIP options
Government discussions on the Northern Ireland Protocol have resolved into three options
European Research Group demand NI Protocol is scrapped
The ERG join the Protocol fight, but will No.10 change tack?
The magician’s dismay
The showman spotted the rabbit hopping about backstage, but was forced to carry on with his trick
Will the UK ever use its leverage against the EU?
Brussels asks Britain for an extension whilst rigorously implementing the NI Protocol
The PM’s plan for lifting lockdown
A leisurely unlocking to prevent a rise in infections, or something more political?
Banned from researching trans
Perceived criticism of trans orthodoxy was too much for one university
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Bants means bans
Scarcely any football chants will be allowed under Labour’s new “equality” rules
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
Ageing gracelessly?
A new book on care is filled with empirical insights but short on rhetorical power
Turkey must be at the centre of Donald Trump’s policy for the Middle East
It would be pure folly to alienate such an important regional power
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Bluesky thinking?
The honeymoon phase of the X alternative could be short-lived
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
