Welfare State
Wrestling with fickle giants
Why, if the Beveridge Report was supposed to cure Britain’s ills, do so many complain society is broken?
War without arms
Labour’s welfare obsession is costing the UK hard military power
Europe is breaking the welfare taboo
Are we witnessing the end of the European welfare state?
Britain is stuck in a welfare loop
The incentive structure in a democratic welfare state makes economic realism impossible
We have to deal with the rise in long-term sickness
It is outrageous that millions are out of work and we don’t know why
Keir Starmer was right to cut the winter fuel allowance
His U-turn shows pure political cowardice
Dying to save the NHS
Assisted dying will provide a new threat to the legitimacy of the NHS
The Motability scheme is taking the British taxpayer for a ride
A noble scheme is being used excessively and sometimes opportunistically
The case for kids
Why children are a public good
Labour owes women actual feminism
Starmer should oppose the two child benefit cap
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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
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
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
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe