Richard Norrie
Dr Richard Norrie is director of the statistics and research programme at the Civitas think tank.
Time to check the police’s thinking
Have they forgotten what they are for?
Stirring the melting pot
Ethnicity pay gap reporting is a terrible idea, so why won’t it go away?
Meet the SAGE of hate crime
The unaccountable group that shapes hate crime policy
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
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
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
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
