• August 2 2025
  Food diet

  Health is an economic trump card

  The Make America Healthy Again movement is right to fight against the food and drink industry

  
• July 26 2025
  Innovation

  Britain needs to unleash the spirit of entrepreneurship

  We continue to put too many obstacles in the way of businesses that want to take risks and make things happen

  
• July 18 2025
  Afghan files

  The Afghanistan data leak will haunt British politics for years

  Both this government and the last are implicated in a cover-up that will cost the UK billions

  
• July 11 2025
  UK politics

  A space has opened up in British politics

  Voters are sick of drama — they want stability

  
• May 23 2025
  UK politics

  On free speech, Britain can learn from America

  Police are dragged into investigating petty incidents, undermining trust in our freedom to express opinions

  
• May 16 2025
  UK housebuilding

  How to fix the UK’s housing crisis

  For young adults, property shortages reinforce the feeling that life is a zero-sum game

  
• May 2 2025
  UK politics

  Reform’s rise shows Labour must get serious about immigration

  With a more volatile electorate, all parties need to adapt to face down populism

  
• April 26 2025
  Coronavirus

  The post-Covid world is only just becoming clear

  The scars of the pandemic are emerging in our politics

  
• April 19 2025
  UK society

  It would be so much easier if we said what we thought

  Non-Brits can find it hard to interpret the ‘polite-isms’ that conceal annoyance

  
• April 12 2025
  Keir Starmer

  Starmer’s opportunity to ride the Trump rollercoaster

  A big question hanging over Britain’s prospects is whether the prime minister can grow on the job

  
• April 4 2025
  Health sector

  Wellness is the new status symbol — but the quest has its downsides

  In this booming industry it can be hard to know when you’re being sold snake oil

  
• March 29 2025
  UK society

  Boys and young men are in crisis — but it’s adults who need educating

  The real problem is one that hand-wringing over ‘toxic masculinity’ won’t solve

  
• March 21 2025
  UK economy

  The non-dom brain drain is starting to hit the UK

  At a time of political turmoil elsewhere, Britain should be offering stability

  
• March 14 2025
  UK Government

  Make public service work again

  Too many of this government’s proposals introduce the kind of regulation the PM professes to hate

  
• February 22 2025
  Populism

  Britain’s new right should beware misplaced triumphalism

  Hope is not built on over-reach or abandoning conservative principles

  
• February 14 2025
  Social affairs

  The tragedy of Britain’s assisted dying debate

  If the bill does go through, it is so narrowly drawn that few people will qualify

  
• February 7 2025
  Managing yourself

  Multitasking is not the answer to your feelings of ‘overwhelm’

  Research shows the human brain can’t cope with doing too much at once, so don’t take that meeting while you dog walk

  
• January 31 2025
  UK defence spending

  Britain must decide if it is to remain a serious player on defence

  Fiscal constraints put Starmer and Reeves in an unenviable situation, but Trump has changed the terms of the debate

  
• January 24 2025
  UK economy

  Government must resist the urge to interfere

  The chancellor is right to say that regulation is often an obstacle to growth — it needs to be much smarter

  
• January 17 2025
  UK Government

  Wanted: a clear governing philosophy for Labour

  School and workers’ rights reforms jar with the government’s stated growth mission

  
• January 11 2025
  National Health Service

  Starmer’s attempt to ‘do a Blair’ on the NHS

  Ministers are trying to go further than before — with less money

  
• January 4 2025
  Religion

  Secularists must remember that religion is on the rise

  Western rationalists have always assumed that atheism is the logical end point of prosperity. But I’m no longer so sure

  
• December 27 2024
  Personal productivity

  Modern life is drowning in a sea of verbiage

  Brevity and clarity have given way to a deluge of text from corporate ‘word salads’ to prolix presentations

  
• November 29 2024
  UK agriculture

  The politics of land is fundamental to the UK

  Farming row reveals the absence of any strategic thinking about how we use it

  
• November 15 2024
  Transport for London

  London bus crashes are the result of an unsafe model

  Individual tragedies indicate a systemic problem that Whitehall needs to look at fast