Last month’s Commonwealth summit in Samoa was not supposed to be about the past. But despite Downing Street’s pledge that … Continue reading "Africa needs free trade, not reparations"

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"

With a selection of MPs and authors attempting to launch a National Conservative movement in the UK, my colleague Alex … Continue reading "National Conservatism – another liberal response"

Those of us in the free market movement who spend too much time online are acutely aware that libertarians have … Continue reading "Book review: “Burning Down The House” by Andrew Koppelman"

Any free market liberal worth their salt will be familiar with the basic argument made about central planning by the … Continue reading "Don Lavoie: The most important libertarian – and Leftist! – you’ve never heard of"

Traditionally, the outcome of midterm elections, held two years before and after presidential elections, are rather predictable: the incumbent President’s … Continue reading "It’s (probably) still the economy, stupid!"