Yes or no? – PMQs 21st May 2025

22 MAY 2025 | OPINION Overture Seemingly, the PM aims to make PMQs into a tired, pointless country dance. It’s all about managing appearances, which is...

Slither and strike – PMQs 13th November 2024

13 NOVEMBER 2024 | OPINION Sir Keir’s counterattacks on the Opposition are a standard Prime Ministerial way to respond to questions, but his evasions and...

A room full of elephants – PMQs 11th December 2024

11 DECEMBER 2024 | OPINION Watching the PM and Kemi Badenoch go at each other over immigration today, an independent observer might be inclined to...

The Great Council House Revival – Paul Maginnis

8 July 2019 | OPINION 100 years ago, Lloyd George pledged ‘to make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in’. The Addison Act of 1919...

The problem is: choice – Patrick Timms

19 June 2019 | OPINION The view that has constrained free markets, and free societies, for so long For any true supporter of freedom, choice must surely...

You need not miss us – Patrick Timms

24 January 2019 | OPINION Last Friday, The Times published a letter signed by 31 well-known German figures mourning the UK’s departure from the European Union and...

Creating a house-building culture in Britain – Jimmy Coles

29 January 2019 | OPINION Housing is paramount to the well-being of our society and it is vital that the country meets its 300,000-per-year target...

Brexit: The Outsider’s View – Ted Jeffery

22 May 2019 | OPINION Whilst we sit around questioning our democracy and party allegiance, there doesn’t seem to be much thought spared for our European counterparts...

We need to increase Stop & Search, but also ask local...

Knife crime is complex. Like all social ills, it is multi-faceted. But this does not stop people from demanding a simple solution or a silver bullet. News flash: one does not exist.

The North Shropshire by-election is a greater loss for Labour than...

20 December 2021 | OPINION The Liberal Democrats can gloat all they like about ‘winning’ a 200-year-old Tory safe seat, but this mid-term polling exercise...