‘Up Hamas, up Hezbollah!’ I don’t know about you, but if I was at a gig and heard a band yelling that to the crowd of adoring fans, I’d assume that they quite liked Hamas and Hezbollah. Just like if I walked the streets screaming ‘Millwall!’ at people, you could reasonably infer that I was […]
War often has a chilling effect on freedom. Sometimes this is necessary. Being at war necessitates restrictions that would be completely out of place in normal society. This expectation is even written into international law, with clear examples and acceptable reasons – especially during war – for restrictions on human rights and personal freedoms. Yet […]
Far from bringing any sense of national cohesion, St George’s Day this year seems to have set politicians and commentators at loggerheads more than ever. It is not just the row that followed the Church moving the saint’s day this year to the following week because of its clash with Easter celebrations. It is also […]
If you look through this morning’s For Women Scotland judgment for statements that wokery is dead, or that the Supreme Court trenchantly confirms that there are only two sexes, you’ll be disappointed. The judgment is actually a long, convoluted and often turgid exercise in statutory construction. Assuming that you can remain awake, what it decides […]
Free societies don’t just depend on free markets for goods and services – they rely on free and functional markets for information. Liberal democracy assumes that, given access to accurate facts, diverse viewpoints and open debate, truth will win out. But what happens when that information market is broken – when attention, not accuracy, becomes […]
Unless you’ve been living under a rock on a distant planet, you’ve heard the name Andrew Tate. And no, don’t worry, I’m not here to endorse him. I don’t buy into his philosophies, his alpha posturing or his digital pyramid scheme disguised as mentorship. But I do object to the media’s obsession with him – […]
Neither Suella Braverman nor Konstantin Kisin identify as English. It is odd that they have decided to declare new rules for who can be English – and ones which the broad majority of those who consider themselves as English would reject.‘He is brown and Hindu – how can he be English?’, Kisin, the fast-talking host […]
Between rumours that its current lead might have been planning an early exit, plummeting viewing figures and seemingly never-ending criticism that ‘Doctor Who’ has gone woke, there is a low-level murmur of online speculation that the BBC might be about to, or indeed should call time on the long-running show. If the TARDIS’ current inhabitant […]
Across the Western world, we live in an age of almost unlimited prosperity, freedom and opportunity. While much of the rest of the world continues to suffer from the scourges that have plagued humanity since the dawn of time, the average Western citizen is remarkably free from the risk of starvation, preventable disease and crushing […]
The Prime Minister is correct to aim to make the UK an ‘AI superpower’ and the ‘best place to start and scale an AI business’. To carry through this ambition, the Government will need to make difficult decisions: we will need to invest in energy infrastructure, provide datasets to developers and attract top global talent. […]
The year is 1980, and 44 years have passed since Britain’s socialist revolution. A new generation has grown up, which has no active memories of capitalism, and only a hazy concept of what ‘capitalism’ even was. This is the premise of the book ‘The First Workers Government‘ by Gilbert Mitchison, published in 1934. An unnamed […]
For a Government so concerned with the rise of right-wing populism, Keir Starmer and pals seem bizarrely intent on vindicating all of the least charitable right-wing predictions about what a Labour Government would be like. Following the furore about grooming gangs at the beginning of the year, reports broke last week that the Government was […]
Marc Sidwell For pure economic geekery, I’ve recently downloaded a free pdf of ‘The Socialist Calculation Debate’ by Peter Boettke and others, which despite the dry title is a gripping piece of intellectual history and highly relevant today, as misguided politicians turn back to economics as a tool of social engineering. Meanwhile it’s been a […]
Thomas Tuchel will be the England football team’s next manager. A German manager will lead England to the 2026 World Cup – as the team seek to mark the 60th anniversary of England’s famous 1966 victory over West Germany by finally winning a major trophy again. The 2026 World Cup also falls exactly 30 years […]
The figures are in. At this year’s Notting Hill Carnival, a total of 334 arrests were made by the Metropolitan Police. Up from the previous year’s 275 arrests, this included dozens for an assault on an emergency worker and possession of an offensive weapon. Along with the 50 police officers injured, there were eight stabbings, with […]
Following recent violent disorder, the debate on whether the Labour Party should officially adopt the working definition of ‘Islamophobia’ developed by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims has been reignited. The riots across parts of England (as well as Belfast in Northern Ireland) in the aftermath of the horrific Southport atrocity where three girls were […]
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