British Politics
Britain needs Thomas Skinner
The country needs some optimism in miserable times
Criticising judges
If a judge cannot tolerate public scrutiny, they have no business being a judge
Ed Davey in rat-infested custard
Even torture wouldn’t stop Davey from voting for cleaner streets and better-run councils
Who is to blame for Birmingham?
It is not just the Labour government
Patriotism takes more than talk
Posting patriots have to remember to log off and do something for their communities
Does Keir Starmer have any actual opinions?
The PM’s reasoning on sex and gender is genuinely pathetic
Britain needs a quangopalypse
A periodic “quango cull” is not enough
The unbearable denseness of boomers
Self-styled defenders of liberal democracy cannot tolerate disagreement or even discontent
Soviet Britain finds itself innocent
No one should take the denial of two-tier policing seriously
Parliamentary pensions’ punishment of defence
MPs should not be enabling woke anti-defence attitudes
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
In praise of Canary Wharf
Once dismissed as a sterile outpost, Canary Wharf has become one of Britain’s greatest urban success stories
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate