Andrew Willshire

How the Tories can avoid a leadership election stitch-up

9 July 2022 3:30 pm

Boris Johnson’s resignation has fired the starting gun on yet another Conservative leadership election. The race to succeed Boris is…

The question Boris's Rwanda plan critics must answer

16 June 2022 2:12 am

There are many reasons to oppose Boris Johnson’s government’s policy of removing migrants to Rwanda. There’s certainly a moral case against…

Greta Thunberg doesn’t like you

11 June 2021 9:35 am

Dorian Lynskey recently wrote a piece celebrating Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday entitled ‘Bob Dylan doesn’t like you‘. The article highlighted the disdain…

Why are the Greens so opposed to the hydrogen economy?

20 May 2021 6:50 pm

As the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow approaches, it is only to be expected that charities, lobbyists, special interest groups…

How Boris can beat the SNP at their own game

9 May 2021 7:44 pm

The re-election of a pro-independence majority to the Scottish Parliament shows that the next five years will be dominated by…

Joe Biden's skewed climate change priorities

27 April 2021 4:30 pm

It’s not hard to see why politicians like Joe Biden and Boris Johnson want to talk about climate change. First…

Brexit could help Boris's green revolution come to life

20 November 2020 10:52 pm

Boris Johnson announced his new ten-point plan for Britain’s transition to a net-zero carbon emissions economy this week. It is…

The EU’s bizarre new climate change targets

10 September 2020 10:36 pm

In recent years, governments have increasingly opted to legislate to ensure they do the things they say they are going…

Why has Hope not Hate shifted its focus to climate change?

26 June 2020 9:07 pm

Hope Not Hate is an organisation with a fine campaigning record which has done a lot of good in tackling…

How Number 10 should illustrate its Covid alert formula

11 May 2020 10:58 pm

Following the Prime Minister’s address last night, Twitter was ablaze with mockery of the equation the government will use to…

Who is brave enough to tell the truth about the 2050 'net zero' target?

11 March 2020 4:25 am

Back in 2009, proposals were published to switch off FM and AM radio completely by 2015. The assumption was that most…

Europe’s politicians should be terrified of a no-deal Brexit

27 August 2019 8:03 pm

Jeremy Corbyn has vowed to use ‘all tactics available’ to block a no-deal Brexit. The Labour leader is meeting MPs…