Beware Boris's sinister crackdown on free speech
A Conservative government that boasts it is a defender of free speech against the attacks of ‘the woke’ is about…
Labour is in last chance saloon
If they have any sense – a proposition I will test later – officials from Labour, the Liberal Democrats and…
Labour’s damning silence on Brexit
The Labour party has updated the old metaphysical question: ‘If a tree falls in a forest and no one is…
Why Jews don’t count to the ‘anti-racists’
Suppose you explain to someone spouting racist, sexist, or otherwise discriminatory ideas that they are prejudiced. You may begin by…
Boris Johnson isn't the only one to blame for Britain's Covid crisis
Britain has suffered one of the world’s highest Covid death tolls and worst Covid recessions. It has managed this abysmal feat…
Why Boris Johnson can't solve the UK's crisis
The Brexit and Covid crises have merged into one. As of today, 21 December, France has blocked trucks from crossing…
Cambridge academics have just won an important battle for free speech
Academics at Cambridge won a cheering victory for free speech today when they voted by an overwhelming majority to reject…
The Cummings' debacle shows Boris isn't fit to lead
For all his Falstaffian swagger, Boris Johnson resembles no Shakespearian character so much as Henry VI. He is a weak…
The cowardice of an ‘anti-fascist’ video game company
Anti-fascism isn’t a game. You can’t preen yourself and say you oppose dictatorship and the power of the mob, then…
Starmer’s suspension of Corbyn took courage
Keir Starmer’s decision to suspend Jeremy Corbyn shows a courage so many lacked when the far left ran the party…
The cruelty of the care home visit ban
The loneliest pandemic deaths are in ‘care’ homes. Old people with dementia and people of all ages with severe mental…
The hounding of a Scottish poet by trans activists
For a witch hunt to begin extremists must so dominate a movement any sin, however slight, becomes a heresy the…
J.K. Rowling's latest novel isn't 'transphobic'
The object of a slanderer is to blacken the name of his target so thoroughly everything she says and does…
How Corbyn's toxic legacy continues to sabotage the Labour party
On Thursday the supposedly resurgent Labour party lost control of Brighton and Hove, one of its few centres of power…
Boris Johnson’s command and control administration
Conservatives once knew that command and control didn’t work. Even if they didn’t know it intellectually, one former Conservative minister…
The coronavirus scandal no one is talking about
For months, mental health charities and Labour politicians have been telling the government truths that were so self-evident to anyone…
The Red Wall overwhelmingly opposes a no-deal Brexit
It isn’t news to say the Johnson administration doesn’t understand how to fight Covid-19 or reopen schools or save the…
Is George Bush brave enough to tell voters to back Biden?
For an instant, it looked as if George W. Bush might be an example of integrity all who believe in liberal…
The lethal combination of Brexit and Covid
The combination of Covid-19 and Brexit is a double whammy. The first was a haymaker that hit Britain from nowhere.…
Boris Johnson will regret standing by Dominic Cummings
Boris Johnson is a populist who no longer understands the populace. Dominic Cummings pretends to be an anti-elitist but cannot…
Coronavirus's forgotten victims
I am hearing stories about people with disabilities that make me feel ill. Visitors to care homes (parents and siblings,…
How to save our nightlife after coronavirus
The one certainty about crisis is that it makes bad situations worse. Anyone working in restaurants, pubs, cafes and clubs…
Bailing out Richard Branson comes with a big price
Richard Branson is asking British taxpayers – a club he resigned from when he moved his affairs to the lax…
Whatever happened to parliamentary democracy?
In the middle of a national crisis, Britain has become a parliamentary democracy without a parliament. The police now have…
Is Boris Johnson serious enough to take on the coronavirus?
Boris Johnson’s handsome election victory was only three months ago, but already it feels like a relic from another age.…
