Welfare State
The duty of care
What, asks this new memoir-manifesto, are families for?
Against assisted suicide
How long before the right to die becomes a duty to die?
The Conservatives have failed conservatism
The family should have been paramount among concerns
Britons on the moon
Remembering a lost dream
The soul of Swedes
On the contested state of Swedish cultural identity
“Death to the Bank of England!”
Do the origins of Mark Drakeford’s Wales experiment lie with the Green Shirts?
Why growth matters
It underpins many of our other hopes and plans
There is an immigration panacea
How to fix a broken system
Throwing good money after bad
Spare us the spectacle of incredible claims to reform criminal drug-users by showering them with more public sector love
The abandoned middle
The chancellor’s budget fails to take the side of ordinary people
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
In praise of the English football fan
No one likes them, they don’t care — and good for them
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Labour’s Gagging Acts
Labour is taking inspiration from Pitt the Younger when it comes to curbing speech
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
Restore the King James Bible
Those who are opposed, please consider, in the bowels of Christ, whether you may be mistaken
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers