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”

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?”

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”

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”