James Mackenzie Smith
James Mackenzie Smith is Head of Policy for the Centre for a Better Britain.
Is Britain on borrowed time?
As decades of borrowing have left public finances exposed, a sovereign debt crisis is a real risk
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Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
