Matthew Groves
Matthew Groves is a former Conservative parliamentary candidate and has previously worked for the Church of England's Parliamentary Unit.
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COVID-19 shows the need for state and economic protectionism
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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
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
Labour’s Gagging Acts
Labour is taking inspiration from Pitt the Younger when it comes to curbing speech
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
The EU must change course on energy
European industry is finally standing up to irrational EU climate policies
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
