Opinion Pieces

Police in Dover and Portsmouth failed miserably – it will only encourage more trouble

Policy Exchange September 7, 2026

The graveyard of political careers

Policy Exchange August 26, 2026

Ministers, not chief constables, must lead policing policy

Policy Exchange August 25, 2026

Do the police answer to the Home Secretary?

Policy Exchange August 24, 2026

The problem with “prison reform”

Policy Exchange August 10, 2026

Buckingham Palace is not ‘monumentally dull’, it is Britain’s architectural anchor

Policy Exchange July 6, 2026

British policing has a leadership crisis – and even insiders are now saying the quiet part out loud

Policy Exchange July 6, 2026

Police policies must be reformed

Policy Exchange June 4, 2026

The problem with a French-led European deterrent

Daniel Skeffington April 24, 2026

Should Britain go it alone on nukes?

Daniel Skeffington April 1, 2026

Progressivism and the police

Policy Exchange March 16, 2026

The Docklands bombing should have been a line in the sand

Dean Godson February 14, 2026

How to end Labour’s lurid legacy of towers

Ike Ijeh February 4, 2026

West Midlands Police is rotten to the core

Policy Exchange January 13, 2026

Michael Quinlan and Europe’s forgotten nuclear wisdom

Daniel Skeffington January 12, 2026

We must think seriously about nuclear deterrence

Daniel Skeffington January 8, 2026

The chief of West Midlands Police must resign

David Spencer January 5, 2026

Shabana Mahmood should seize control of the Met police from failing Khan

David Spencer December 11, 2025

We needed Stakeknife – the war against the IRA wasn’t fought in peacetime Surrey

Dean Godson December 10, 2025

We need nuclear now

Rt Hon Anne-Marie Trevelyan December 10, 2025

Mark Rowley may have blown his chance to reform the Met

David Spencer December 9, 2025

Crime might be falling, but the Met is letting London down

David Spencer December 9, 2025

The Leadbeater Bill is not limited enough

Richard Ekins KC (Hon) November 27, 2025

The BBC’s relentless war on Britain’s past has reached another horrible stage

Dr Rakib Ehsan November 26, 2025

Chief Constables, arrest thyselves

David Spencer November 23, 2025

The UK must get reacquainted with its nuclear power

Rt Hon Lord Case CVO PC November 21, 2025

Rachel Reeves must break this manifesto pledge

Ticiana Alencar November 20, 2025

Police and Crime Commissioners failed to hold useless officers to account

David Spencer November 13, 2025

When will the prisons minister face up to the jail crisis?

David Spencer November 7, 2025

The lethality of ‘Islamophobia’ accusations

Dean Godson October 22, 2025

The Maccabi ban is the most shameful example of two-tier policing yet

David Spencer October 21, 2025

Sorry, Keir Starmer, but schools can’t do it all

Zachary Marsh October 13, 2025

New towns must be good towns

Ike Ijeh October 8, 2025

It is not bigoted to point out parts of Britain are not well-integrated. It’s the truth

Dr Rakib Ehsan October 7, 2025

The wretched idea that drives Hamas to kill

Charles Moore October 7, 2025

Are we about to get an Islamophobia tsar?

Dr Paul Stott October 6, 2025

We’re making the same mistakes after the Manchester attack

Dr Paul Stott October 3, 2025

The key philosophical reason Tory efforts to reform human rights law have failed

Dr Conor Casey October 3, 2025

The sorry record – and uncertain future – of the Human Rights Act

Richard Ekins KC (Hon) October 2, 2025

Progressivism in criminal justice needs locking up

David Spencer October 1, 2025

Barring Israeli soldiers from the Royal College of Defence Studies is a mistake

Air Marshal Edward Stringer (Ret’d) CB CBE September 16, 2025

The questions the Met must answer over the Graham Linehan debacle

David Spencer September 4, 2025

Sentencing veto is welcome – but the battle against the ‘unelected state’ has barely begun

David Spencer September 2, 2025

The Good Friday Agreement doesn’t stop Britain quitting the ECHR

Richard Ekins KC (Hon) September 1, 2025

Make council houses beautiful

Ike Ijeh August 15, 2025

I’m a former Detective Chief Inspector. This is what’s going wrong at The Met

David Spencer August 4, 2025

We need to be honest about London’s crime wave

David Spencer July 30, 2025

The Met must fix London’s street crime crisis

David Spencer July 30, 2025

Is this the man who can defeat France’s Islamists?

Dean Godson July 24, 2025

Has Lord Hermer just performed a legal power grab?

Richard Ekins KC (Hon) July 12, 2025

The Met deserves credit for its robust response to Palestine Action

David Spencer June 24, 2025

Ignore the do-gooders, we need more criminals in prison

David Spencer June 23, 2025

The Government could easily stamp out crime, if they so wished to

David Spencer June 23, 2025

Why won’t the Met Police deal with Palestine protestors blocking parliament?

David Spencer June 10, 2025

The UK’s growth problem runs deeper than Trump’s trade war

Ben Ramanauskas April 23, 2025

Why it is more important than ever to preserve Shakespeare’s legacy

Lara Brown March 29, 2025

Will Streeting’s shake-up save the NHS?

Dr Sean Phillips March 17, 2025

Wes Streeting is right to abolish NHS England — but must not fail this crucial test

Dr Sean Phillips March 14, 2025

Here’s how we can rebuild our broken benefits system

Jean-Andre Prager March 10, 2025