BY TOM COLSY The European Union is an unmitigated disaster. Barely 10% of Brits say they want a United States of Europe and many are increasingly unfavourable towards other institutions like the UN and IMF. The EU’s legacy will be far from one of security, peace and free trade. America, Read more…
BY LISA GRAVES I recently took two online Political Compass tests, and both found me to be very much on the liberal Left side of the chart. I don’t for one moment think these tests are the most accurate way of finding out people’s specific political leanings, but I do Read more…
BY TIM DAWSON Poverty. The hard left bloody love it. Just take a look at one of their attack ads. Bleak, washed-out footage, dishevelled paupers in unwashed clothes, staggering to the food bank. It’s all straight from Jeremy Corbyn’s “Marxism for Dummies” book, of course – and, as an accurate Read more…
BY ANDREW BOFF If it were up to many politicians, cars would be banned in London. The idea that Londoners might consider an array of transport options and make their own decision on which one is most appropriate for any given journey is anathema to them. Ideally, from Sadiq Khan’s Read more…
BY TOBY YOUNG As a thought experiment, let’s imagine that Labour wins the next General Election. In fairly short order, many British companies start going out of business, including Hovis Ltd. So Jeremy Corbyn decides to take it into public ownership. But the Labour apparatchiks in Whitehall know nothing about Read more…
BY TIM DAWSON The Duke of Sussex has jumped the shark. Earlier this week, Prince Harry removed his shoes and socks, took to the podium in front of an audience of tech billionaires and multi-millionaire c’lebs at a Google event in Sicily nicknamed “Davos-on-sea”, and opined about climate change. He, Read more…
BY REBECCA RYAN It’s the latest absurd measure. At Theresa May’s initiative, it was announced that all police officers would need to have a degree, or to study for one during their first years of training. The move will add a new set of academic requirements to police training, and Read more…
BY TIM DAWSON The wheels finally seem to be coming off the Remain Project. For too long, they have seemed to control the narrative, aided by their over-representation in the media and Parliament. But finally their project is collapsing. The accusations are getting louder; the voices shriller; the stunts sillier. Read more…
BY BEN PILE The thuggish intolerance and dark, infantile fantasising of people still grieving over the UK’s 2016 referendum result and Donald Trump’s election that same year are now well-understood. Brexit Derangement Syndrome (BDS) and Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) are real things, expressed routinely, without shame, in real life and Read more…
BY CALVIN ROBINSON Boris Johnson has pledged increased spending in Education of £4.6 billion per year by 2022. That’s incredibly close to the Institute for Fiscal Studies’ findings of the boost to funding that schools will likely need to reverse so-called ‘cuts’. Think tank Onward projected that schools need £3.5 Read more…
BY SUSAN HALL What does business want from the Mayor of London? There are two schools of thought. If you subscribe to the Reaganite view that “the most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help”, then you might hope for a Read more…
BY TIM DAWSON They’ve done it. They have. They’ve finally flipped. The Remainer-Left has been teetering on the brink of a collective breakdown for some time. Slowly but surely, all the “influencers” have been degenerating into hysteria – Gary Lineker, AC Grayling, the pathological David Lammy. But since Boris arrived Read more…
BY SURAJ SHARMA Positivity. Energy. Optimism. Dare I even say, humour. Words which haven’t featured in British politics much – if at all – in the last three years. But! In the past 24 hours, all four have washed through the Tory Party as we look forward to a new Read more…
BY GARETH ROBERTS Praxis. Oppression. Lived experience. The equity doctrine. Systemic power structures. Hegemonic hierarchies. Yes, that’s the gibberish of the contemporary social justice left, which having successfully colonised academia has seeped into public institutions and corporates. But here’s a thing. These nonsensical neologisms are already grimly familiar to me Read more…
BY REBECCA RYAN On the 24th June 2016 we awoke to a new dawn. Leave had won the referendum. The UK had voted to leave the EU. Finally, it seems we will have a government that is going to deliver it. Already there is a spring in the Conservative Party’s Read more…
BY TIM DAWSON Boris Johnson. The new leader of the Conservative Party and the next Prime Minister of this country. It was, in truth, inevitable. The momentum behind the classically-educated blonde bombshell has felt unstoppable since the leadership election was announced – indeed, since Mrs. May’s leadership was announced. These Read more…
Where there is discord, may we bring harmony, Where there is error, may we bring truth, Where there is doubt, may we bring faith, And where there is despair, may we bring hope. It’s happening, folks.
BY KEITH PRINCE “Strikes are ultimately a sign of failure. Every day there’s a strike it caused huge misery and inconvenience to Londoners… As mayor what I’d do is roll up my sleeves and make sure that I’m talking to everyone who runs public transport to make sure there are Read more…
BY TIM DAWSON Yesterday, they Marched for Change. Well, they didn’t actually, they marched for everything to stay the same. But they said they were Marching for Change, which I guess made them feel better. The language of political debate has been turned completely upside down. Progressives are regressive; liberals Read more…
Whilst the Remain establishment have been doing everything they can to frustrate Brexit, our financial contribution to the EU continues to go up. New government figures released yesterday show the UK’s payments to Brussels have risen by an eye-popping 20.4%. The figures, which were tucked away on page 23 of Read more…