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
Rugby’s debt to Mrs T
Rugby league was transformed from a fringe working-class activity into part of national life
Blurred thin blue lines (w/ Lisa Townsend)
How ideology can interfere with policing
Introducing Critical Mash
Our new arts podcast, broadcasting from the frontline of the (high) culture war
Laugh to hide the tears
Rishi Sunak was desperate to appear on top form before the Liaison Committee
Leave Gen Z alone
The supposed laziness of young people has itself become a lazy trope
Keir the coward
Narrowing the borders of permissible opinion will not solve Britain’s societal crises
Sunak, false equivalence and the phantom far right
There is no comparison between the threat of Islamism and the threat of the far right
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
Bring back the Law Lords
Tony Blair’s introduction of a US-style Supreme Court has served to undermine the supremacy of Parliament
The problem with public sector procurement
The Social Value Act has brought questionable benefits and serious costs
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline