BY REBECCA RYAN If Brexit is about one thing, then Brexit is about Freedom. Freedom to make our own laws, to set our own tax levels, to negotiate our own trade deals. This will be of enormous benefit to our country. Free marketeers should be feeling particularly upbeat. It has Read more…
BY TIM DAWSON Back in the day, in the back of their minds, people worried they were going to be blown up. At any moment, the sirens may wail, the television picture cut and those ominous words disseminate across the land in fruity but grave tones. “This is the Wartime Read more…
BY ZUBY UDEZUE Positive discrimination is still discrimination. This would seem to be self-evident. If you choose to discriminate in favour of one person or group because of their unalterable characteristics like their gender, race or sexuality, then you are still discriminating. Period. Proponents of such activity – “affirmative action”, Read more…
BY CHLOE WESTLEY The left talk about businesses as if they are always the bad guys – rich, powerful, elitist and greedy. In their eyes, any success or profit should be punished by higher taxation. You’ll often find the likes of John McDonnell accuse them of ‘not paying their fair Read more…
BY ANDREW BOFF Rent controls are a zombie policy. However many times you think they are dead, they keep rising again as a new generation of left-wing politicians seizes upon them as an easy answer to a difficult problem. Perhaps this is unsurprising when you consider that the case for Read more…
Boris is right to say No to Nanny. The frontrunner for Next Prime Minister has made it clear that he will reverse the government’s increasingly puritanical attitude to our health and lifestyle choices. In particular, he will end the constant kowtowing to the pernicious “health lobby”. This represents a massively Read more…
BY IDREECE KHAN When the economics profession as we know it today first came into being in the 18th century through early pioneers like Smith, Malthus and Ricardo it was all about trying to understand the world through the a priori method of pure reason. It is using this approach Read more…
Conservatives are evil, our opponents like to say. Conservatives are selfish. Conservatives are only interested in the acquisition of material wealth. Whereas Socialists are kindly. Socialists wish to redistribute. Socialists want to use the apparatus of the state to take money from the undeserving and redistribute it to those in Read more…
We believe part of the problem for the Conservative Party over the last few years is that it’s allowed itself to travel too far from its ideological roots. In this occasional series of short explorations, we’ll be taking a look at some of the loudest voices in the philosophical shaping Read more…
The culture war is raging all around us and it’s time for the Conservative Party to go into battle. An eminent philosopher has recently been removed from a government appointment because of a series of inaccurate tweets by a left-wing journalist. An award-winning Doctor Who writer, who also happens to Read more…
Margaret Thatcher. Britain’s first woman Prime Minister. The longest continuously serving Prime Minister of the 20th Century. A global icon. So why are some Conservatives so nervous about her? Thatcher conspicuously rejected consensus. In a political climate where “compromise” is heralded as a great virtue – indeed, it seems to Read more…
Brexit is a golden opportunity for free marketeers. Whilst, clearly, the ultimate reason to leave the EU is to re-establish the UK as a sovereign democracy, our imminent departure also implores upon us to have a proper, rational debate about our future economic direction. For too long, the government has Read more…
The Left love to tell us they’re the good guys. “We care,” they tell us. About human rights. And human suffering. The inference being: not like you nasty Conservatives who simply enjoy making people poor. “Austerity is a choice,” they say. Yeah, right. Because sky-high debt payments and rocketing taxes Read more…