Opinion Pieces

Lies, damned lies and statistics: Why we can’t trust numbers anymore

Ben Sweetman December 17, 2024

Labour’s quiet plan to ‘decolonise’ street names proves the culture wars aren’t over

Lara Brown December 16, 2024

Doctors, lawyers: we Tories have lost the professional classes to Labour. Here’s how to win them back

Lord Goodman December 7, 2024

Starmer’s Government has no power to arrest Netanyahu

Richard Ekins November 25, 2024

When the country is sliding towards chaos, the police can’t waste time on ‘non-crime’

David Spencer November 25, 2024

The ICC has destroyed its own credibility

Yuan Yi Zhu November 22, 2024

Starmer’s revisions to the ministerial code could have been a lot worse

Stephen Webb November 18, 2024

Pearson’s plight will become a springboard for populists if free speech is not protected

David Spencer November 16, 2024

How the Human Rights Act makes Britain harder to govern

Yuan Yi Zhu November 15, 2024

What has Labour got against beautiful buildings?

Ike Ijeh November 14, 2024

Keir Starmer’s choice of Attorney General should concern conservatives

Yuan Yi Zhu November 14, 2024

The great flaw in the Human Rights Act

Richard Ekins November 11, 2024

Police must use ‘full extent’ of the law to crack down on vile Armistice Day protests

David Spencer November 8, 2024

Labour must learn from Kamala Harris’s transgender muddle

Lara Brown November 8, 2024

Has the police watchdog learnt nothing from the Chris Kaba debacle?

Stephen Webb November 5, 2024

Make no mistake, the great train fare robbery is under way

Andrew Gilligan November 2, 2024

Ending the £2 cap on bus fares hurts working people

Andrew Gilligan October 29, 2024

Doomed from the start: the four reasons HS2 failed

Andrew Gilligan October 27, 2024

The West’s addiction to ‘soft power’ is leaving us dangerously exposed to those who wish us ill

Charles Moore October 25, 2024

If we don’t back our police marksmen, we’ll live to regret it – and more black children will die on our streets

Chris Donaldson October 24, 2024

Starmer cannot afford to apologise for Britain’s part in the slave trade

Rakib Ehsan October 24, 2024

The NHS is not ‘systemically racist’ against ethnic minorities

Lord Sewell of Sanderstead CBE October 23, 2024

Starmer must not cave to Commonwealth demands for reparations

Rakib Ehsan October 23, 2024

Chris Kaba trial: the noisy anti-police coalition are trying to crush the spirit of police officers

David Spencer October 23, 2024

Officers are unhappy this trial went ahead – Comment

David Spencer October 22, 2024

The disgraceful Kaba farce shows why police morale is in freefall

David Spencer October 22, 2024

The term ‘Global South’ is pernicious claptrap

Marcus Solarz Hendriks October 22, 2024

It’s time the Commonwealth showed its clout

Trevor Phillips October 18, 2024

Britain needs Commonwealth allies more than ever

Rakib Ehsan October 17, 2024

Why British Black Africans are so patriotic

Rakib Ehsan October 16, 2024

Israel is the victim of escalating international lawfare

Richard Ekins October 15, 2024

Is class rather than race a bigger barrier to success in Britain?

Rakib Ehsan October 15, 2024

Why do we get the wrong leaders?

James Vitali October 10, 2024

Handing over the Chagos Islands is a grave mistake

Richard Ekins October 4, 2024

It’s time to retire Trafalgar’s fourth plinth

Lara Brown September 19, 2024

New head of Border Security Command has had ‘distinguished policing career’ but nothing he has faced ‘will compare to challenges of role’

Stephen Webb September 16, 2024

The public will not tolerate any more mistakes by the Met in the policing of protests

David Spencer September 13, 2024

The decline and fall of Tariq Ramadan

Dr Paul Stott September 12, 2024

Planning for a Post-American NATO

Air Marshal Edward Stringer (Ret’d) CB CBE September 6, 2024

Nationalisation won’t fix Britain’s chronic railway problems

Andrew Gilligan September 4, 2024

How Labour should deal with China

Sophia Gaston September 1, 2024

Iran promotes UK extremism – it must be stopped

Dr Paul Stott August 31, 2024

The poor suffer most from ugly architecture. Let’s build beautiful

Ike Ijeh August 28, 2024

Labour’s prisons policy risks dangerous criminals going free

David Spencer August 19, 2024

Easing the grievances of poor whites would help thwart bigotry

David Goodhart August 18, 2024

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