Martin van Staden
Martin van Staden is a Fellow at the Initiative for African Trade and Prosperity and Head of Policy at the Free Market Foundation in South Africa
The EU red tape export racket
Brussels is drowning South Africa in bureaucracy
South Africa needs better policies, not just better vibes
Political change must lead to economic change as well
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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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
Breaking the mould
The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
A bloodless account of blood-soaked times
Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece by Adrian Goldsworthy
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
