Housing
Make Englishmen’s homes their castles again
Buildings extensions must not be made unaffordable
Stamp duty is a tax that deserves the axe
Kemi Badenoch is right to pledge to abolish it
New towns must be good towns
New towns of the future must be beautiful and successful communities
Compulsory purchase orders are legalised theft
Expanding housing must not come at the expense of respecting private property
Labour’s housing ice age
The goverment is leaving potential homeowners out in the cold
In defence of Angela Rayner
Whatever happened to the British sense of fair play?
Vindication of the NIMBYs
Local activists are the strongest soldiers in the war over the character of England
Drawing Britain’s new frontier
The merits of hand-drawn masterplans in urban design
The NIMBY menace
This is not planning, it’s a druidic biodiversity inquisition wrapped in DEFRA jargon
The cottage in the country
The English cottage in the national consciousness
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
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.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
Pricing out the young
Britain’s labour market is faltering, and subsidies cannot mask the policies pricing young workers out.
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
The dumb-dumbs of war
When it comes to Iran, the Conservative Shadow Cabinet are donkeys led by a donkey
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
From Newton to newts
Putting badgers on the banknotes may avoid controversy, but it also avoids saying anything meaningful about Britain at all