18+ hour, 51+ min ago   (866+ words) Britain’s separatists have spent decades discovering that the Union is far stronger than its defenders believe On the question of territorial integrity, as so often on matters constitutional, the United Kingdom does things differently to almost every other nation on…...

13+ hour, 58+ min ago   (701+ words) Once held up as a socialist utopia, Sweden’s transformation is more profound than any single election result When the Americans begin praising Sweden as a beacon of capitalism and an “incredible addition” to the NATO alliance, to quote US Secretary…...

14+ hour, 31+ min ago   (581+ words) Britain’s prison crisis has handed organised crime a captive market Another week, another Boschian depiction of the hellscape that is British state capacity. At a Prosperity Institute panel on two-tier justice during Reform UK’s party conference, crime journalist David Shipley…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (641+ words) Twenty-five years on, Britain’s enemies have learned from 9/11. Our government has not Twenty-five years ago today, 67 Britons were killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Britain lost more citizens on 11 September 2001 than any country except the United States. Whilst the West watched…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (552+ words) Sectional interests and self-selecting caucuses are no substitute for proper expertise The last conviction under British blasphemy laws occurred in 1977, when the conservative campaigner Mary Whitehouse privately prosecuted Gay News and its editor, Denis Lemon, for publishing The Love That…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (566+ words) We have to offer elderly and disabled people a helping hand — not assisted suicide Andy Burnham may be the latest in a series of Prime Ministers to pass through the ever-more-revolving door of Downing Street, but the Britain he inherits…...