Over the weekend I sat down to watch Hillbilly Elegy, the controversial film currently available on Netflix, expecting it to be terrible. The reviews are almost universally bad – scathingly bad – pointing to this
The report signifies No. 10’s recognition of the clout wielded by Conservative backbench rebels, but its substance has little to placate them. Following sustained pressure from the Covid Recovery Group (CRG) of backbench Conservative MPs under the
The Prime Minister recently travelled down to Torridge and West Devon, the constituency of my parliamentary colleague Geoffrey Cox QC MP, to celebrate the re-opening of the historic Appledore shipyard. The last survivor of a
BY DR NEIL SHASTRI-HURST As autumn approaches across Ankara, dark clouds gather over the Eastern Mediterranean. This is the latest storm brewing involving President Erdoğan. The escalation in tensions between Greece and Turkey, following the
One might have been forgiven, before Covid-19 entered our national consciousness, for thinking our government would be well prepared to handle whatever new illness nature could throw our way. The UK government prides itself on
BY JOEL RODRIGUES There are many figures in British political life who have had an immense impact on the Brexit process, from the politicians who pushed for a referendum, to the activists and campaigners who
Few ideologies have inspired such frequent premature eulogies as free-market capitalism. The economic system which has succeeded across cultures and geographies and millennia is berated by its critics as harsh, immoral and exploitative. With each
