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
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Jams, jellies and EU insanity
From toast to tungsten, the EU is an enemy of innovation
Why we love pubs
Politicians are squeezing pubs out of existence without understanding why they matter
UnappEaling comedy
A “loose, loose reimagining” of Kind Hearts And Coronets does not really work
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
Graphics, games and occult entities
A retrospective of Treister’s work reveals the frictions in the artist’s motivations
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement
The welfare state of things
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the numbers behind Britain’s welfare state
Will capitalism end capitalism?
Artificial intelligence is perverting the logic of our economic and political systems
