Politics

Tax on Fuel Is an Outrage - So Are the Politics

“Tax on fuel [...] accounts for 57 per cent of the price of a litre of petrol and 54 per cent of the price of a litre of diesel.” That is the TaxPayers…

Mar 17 • Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA

Our Politicians Don't Read. That's Why Britain Is Failing

Most MPs couldn't name three works of political theory if their seats depended on it. And yet we trust them to govern our country.

Mar 11 • Harry Richer

War With Iran: What Would You Do?

Libertarians can honourably be for or against war with Iran. In any event, President Trump has forced it upon the world. What would you do?

Mar 10 • Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA

Smashing Through the Bureaucratic Mindset

If it takes a country over 50 years to abolish a derisory 25p payment to octogenarians, what chance does it have of fixing HS2, the quango state or…

Mar 3 • Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA

Legal Advice Says No: Starmer's Legalistic Utopia

This Labour Government has collapsed into governing through a legalistic tunnel vision where choice is removed at every level and only procedure…

Feb 26 • Eve

From Gramsci to Net Zero: How Climate Orthodoxy Captured the State

There is no nobility in energy poverty.

Feb 18 • Ted Newson

"Oh No! Not Another One!" – Restore Britain Launches

Political chaos and disappointment will endure until we confront the role of the state

Feb 17 • Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA

“Tories in Disguise”? Why Reform Doesn’t Mind Looking a Bit More Conservative

Farage has set a deadline of 7 May for defections. This deadline will be 7 May 2029. Farage will keeping courting Tory politicians until the next GE; it…

Feb 11 • Harry Richer

Giving the Public What They Want

Jacob says the quiet bit out loud: Boris went green in 2019 at the expense of bills because it is what the polling called for. Elected representatives…

Feb 10 • Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA

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Reform’s Fatal Contradiction

Reform UK cannot plausibly present itself as a revolt against lockdowns, mass immigration, censorship and technocratic rule while actively recruiting…

Feb 5 • Albie Amankona

Why I Am Not Defecting to Reform

A great realignment has happened in politics: nationalism-cosmopolitanism is now the main axis, not socialism-capitalism. I am not seeking re-election…

Feb 3 • Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA

Isms and Experience: The Origins of Trump's Policy Part Two

Will enough people recognise the old pattern, reclaim the ideas of a free society and build the movement needed to dismantle the ideas of the total…

Jan 27 • Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA

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