Britain has experienced a period of relative economic stagnation since migration numbers have risen, despite the clear economic consensus in … Continue reading "Don’t blame immigration for Britain’s low investment rates"

The Centre for Policy Studies has released new research today arguing that the UK should drastically limit legal immigration. The paper … Continue reading "Review: Taking Back Control by Robert Jenrick MP, Neil O’Brien MP & Karl Williams"

Early last month, former Foreign Secretary William Hague praised Onward’s The Case for Conservatism, emphasising its call for an ‘active state’. … Continue reading "What the communitarian Right gets wrong about industrial policy"

Earlier this week, the Guardian published a write-up of a report titled ‘Third of UK teenagers believe climate change exaggerated, … Continue reading "Is climate change denial really on the rise?"

Britain is moving in a decidedly cashless direction. In the decade between 2012 and 2022, cash payments fell from 54 … Continue reading "Britain is going cashless – and that’s fine"

Two new batches of data have emerged in recent weeks studying peoples’ tendency to think in zero-sum terms. One piece … Continue reading "How zero-sum thinking leads to zero-sum policies"

Earlier this year, progressive columnist Ezra Klein wrote a column criticising ‘everything-bagel liberalism’ (by “liberalism”, Klein meant left wing progressivism, … Continue reading "The problem with ‘everything-bagel’ YIMBYism"

Increasing crime rates are always cause for concern, but the UK’s pathetically low rates of crime solving are making the … Continue reading "Protection, containment, and restitution – a liberal vision of criminal justice"

Recent ONS figures show that in 2022, net migration into the UK exceeded 600,000 people, with more than 1m people … Continue reading "Why we should not obsess about headline net migration figures"

For a brief period in the mid-late 2010s, it looked like the Culture War might be an environment in which … Continue reading "Why liberals should not take a side in the Culture War"