Did the homeless man who stole a marathon medal really deserve a jail sentence?
I can think of many people who deserve to be in jail but perhaps not Stanislaw Skupien. The homeless Pole was…
Donald Trump’s migrant policy shows he has finally gone too far
Historians will still be asking in 100 years’ time why public outrage did not do Donald Trump more harm. How…
Sex and the City: the paradox of women bankers who can’t negotiate a bonus
I am sure there must have been a time when feminism was concerned with the interests of the low-paid and…
Donald Trump is right: Western food markets are protectionist
In Donald Trump’s dealings with Kim Jong-un it is possible to decipher a strategy of creative destruction: stir things up,…
Argentina, why not boycott the entire World Cup?
I am all for taking ethical stands, but if you are going to do so it does help to show…
The battle for Heathrow was over long ago
Whatever happened to the political squall that was Heathrow’s third runway? For several years it looked as if the issue…
Why is Ucas pigeonholing students into ethnic groups?
David Lammy is upset again, as he is every week. This time it is thanks to data released by Ucas,…
Chris Grayling’s railway fantasy is costing the Tories
Yippee! Now I can finally take a train to Scotland without putting money into Richard Branson’s pockets. This afternoon’s announcement…
Has Britain reached ‘Peak Wealth’?
So the year-long squeeze on real earnings is now officially over. Figures released by the ONS this morning show that…
Fact check: the UN Special Rapporteur’s report on British racism
The first instinct of many people towards Tendayi Achiume, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights who finished her 11…
Is it really harder for young people to buy a home than it was 30 years ago?
The Resolution Foundation has called for 25-year-olds to be paid £10,000 to help them afford homes, saying the ‘generational contract’…
Jacob Rees-Mogg’s critics are missing the point
Surprisingly though it may be to some of my readers I have never been that bothered about Brexit. I even…
Is Brexit a human rights emergency? The UN seems to think so
How easy it would be to be goaded by the visit of Tendayi Achiume, the UN’s “Special Rapporteur on Racism”…
Brexit isn’t to blame for dismal GDP growth – and nor is the weather
The government’s opponents were not slow, as usual, to blame today’s disappointing data on economic growth on Brexit (the IOD)…
Finland’s Universal Basic Income experiment falls flat
Should governments abolish their welfare states and replace them with a Universal Basic Income (UBI), paid to everyone, even billionaires,…
The Brexit bounce making a mockery of George Osborne’s Project Fear
We are now just two months away from the second anniversary of the Brexit vote and therefore in a position…
The disturbing reaction to the Hither Green ‘burglar’ stabbing
A black youth living in London might be forgiven for a bit of confusion this morning. All week we have…
Gender pay gap hysteria could make things worse for women
Next time I hear a government minister on radio or television bemoaning Britain’s poor record on productivity I request that…
Are you a winner or a loser from Trump’s trade war?
China’s imposition today of tariffs on 128 imports from the US was inevitable – and is no doubt exactly the…
UK investment is at a record high. So why has almost no one reported it?
Why is it that whenever some organisation comes up with some half-baked prediction of doom for the UK economy post-Brexit…
The EU’s petulance is turning its Galileo satellite into a white elephant
Moves by the EU to try to stop British armed forces from accessing the Galileo satellite system, and to prevent…
The left’s prophet of doom is still wrong
The Left has found something to raise its cheer. Needless to say, it is someone predicting that mankind is doomed. The…
Let’s hear more of the moral case for Brexit
How many times over the past few months have some remain supporters tried to tell us that tariffs on imported…
The Russian spy row could help Corbyn
It seems obvious, doesn’t it? Jeremy Corbyn, in a comment piece in the Guardian, continues to insist that Putin might…
Thanks to the anti-fracking lobby, Britain can’t avoid Russian gas
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