Steve Baker
Steve Baker is the Conservative MP for Wycombe and a former chairman of the European Research Group. @SteveBakerHW
It’s alright for some
The poorest will pay the highest price for Net Zero fantasies
A year of Black Wednesdays?
The CRG deputy chairman on the longterm Lockdown risks
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
The sorry strategy
Reparations are a deeply dangerous strategy in the carnivorous world of geopolitics
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain