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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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
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
Will Andy crash and Burnham?
The Manchester man is going to face the same constraints as Keir Starmer
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
