Truss wants the Bank of England’s mandate reviewed

Liz Truss believes the Bank of England has lost control of inflation. If chosen as the country’s next prime minister, she plans to bring it back to...

Ukraine’s fate may rest on a mild winter

Russia is once again relying on ‘General Winter’. Instead of freezing German advances on Moscow, the plan today is to freeze German pensioners in...

Biden’s word play can’t save the United States from a recession

Some denials are more worrying than their absence. A company insisting that its director will be vindicated by the forensic auditors is unlikely to...

There’s nothing conservative about climate change

The combination of '40°C temperatures' and 'England' feels about as natural a pairing as 'English football' and 'winning'; God simply did not intend...

How Germany’s energy crisis could bite Britain

For now, Berlin can breathe a sigh of relief: after a ten-day shutdown for maintenance, the Nord Stream 1 pipeline is back online. Russia is once...

Germany is at Russia’s mercy

While Britain bakes in a heatwave, politicians in Germany are worrying about the winter. The Russian state-owned gas company Gazprom has notified its...

Britain’s sclerotic state is killing prosperity

To listen to the would-be prime ministers of the Conservative party, things in Britain are going pretty well. Sure, Covid knocked the public finances...

Penny Mordaunt would make a great leader – of the Labour party

The clouds have cleared, the fog has lifted, clarity has arrived. The first reaction to finding out Penny Mordaunt was well ahead in the polls and the...

It’s time to kill the Online Safety Bill for good

The Online Safety Bill has been postponed. It should now be killed off for good. Not only is it bad for business, bad for free speech, and – by...

The case against all the Tory leadership candidates

The Tory leadership contenders have set out their pitches. Rishi Sunak is the sensible but boring choice. Liz Truss is the candidate who will cut...

Can the next Tory leader save Boris’s broken Britain?

Whatever else will be said about him in the days and years to come, Boris Johnson will leave No. 10 having achieved the full extent of his policy...

Ben & Jerry’s is wrong about Britain’s ‘racist’ Rwanda plan

David Lammy, George Floyd and the trouble with ‘structural racism’

The moral decay at the heart of the Tory party

BLM is dying but it’s legacy lives on

Why a Black Lives Matter foundation was able to buy a mansion

What reason is there for young people like me to vote Tory?

Revoking Roe v. Wade is not an assault on democracy

In praise of Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover

What are the Tories for?

The shameful silence surrounding David Amess’s murder

Neither Ukraine nor Russia can win the war

Russia has never been a part of the West

In defence of mutually assured destruction

A no-fly zone is an act of war

No, Putin is not Hitler

Putin’s war in Ukraine is about to turn even nastier

Putin, Ukraine and the end of ‘the end of history’

Britain is trapped in a Boomerocracy