Niall Gooch
Niall Gooch is a public sector worker and occasional writer who lives in Kent. Follow him at @niall_gooch
In defence of family life
Some things are more important than the line going up
Human rights and legal wrongs
Why doesn’t British legislation protect free speech?
Why won’t liberals tell the truth about immigration?
The British left want open borders — but won’t admit it
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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
Ancient bones of contention
The burgeoning and irregulated market for dinosaur skeletons
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Haskel’s challenge
Andy Burnham does not have much time to kickstart growth
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
