Devolution
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
We need democracy, not the permanent bureaucracy
Civil servants are hampering the work of our elected representatives
How much will Reform reform?
The party is not living up to the transformative energy that has pushed it up the polls
We have to rein in meddling councils
Local authorities have become overbearing and unaccountable
British politics is Gething worse and worse
Identity is being prioritised over competence and ambition
The problem with the Celtic Fringe
Devolution has proved to be a disastrous mistake
Devolution has been a disaster
SNP incompetence is a feature of the system and not a bug
Stopping the devolution ratchet
More devolution will not solve the worst consequences of devolution
Falling out of love with London
Bureaucrats are degrading England’s capital
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
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
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?