Keir Starmer and Liz Truss have one thing in common. If either of them sought a political motto, they could both use the same one: ‘It shouldn’t have been like this.’ Following on from that, there is ...

All that’s without considering Britain’s moral responsibility to Hong Kong, undoubtedly greater than with many of the other places we take refugees from. As the then Prince Charles put it in a diary ...

The Labour Party ‘retains its old atrophying instincts and repeats its mistakes, ad nauseum’. ‘The country is ungovernable,’ continues the cheery analysis. ‘The left, dominated by the professional ...

The public's appetite for state handouts is already dangerously inflated post-Covid Technological progress exposes us to new vulnerabilities as surely as it opens up new opportunities: the two are ...

Keir Starmer is considering withdrawing the UK from a little-known, damaging Convention The decline experienced across Britain is contributing to the anger we are seeing across the country This ...

For years, the Remainiacs and their cheerleaders in the establishment – academe, unions, the media and celebrity circles – have relentlessly attacked Brexit as a wasteland, barren of benefits. They’ve ...

The only sustainable way to make people better off is economic growth. In the three months to July, the UK economy experienced 0.2% growth, and in July alone, it experienced no growth. If we want to ...

In 1986, Ronald Reagan quipped that the nine most terrifying words in the English language were: ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’ Today, I’d argue we have a new contender. ‘ New ...

Keir Starmer has announced the most un-British of proposals. Despite mandatory ID schemes having been rejected at every attempt to introduce them since 1950, Labour will require every adult in the UK ...

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Hedgehogs ‘relate everything to a single central vision, one system, less or more coherent or articulate, in terms of which they understand, think and feel’. Meanwhile foxes ‘pursue many ends, often ...

A flat tax yielded benefits in Estonia, could it improve our complex tax system too? Ever since Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published ‘The Communist Manifesto’, progressive taxation has been the ...