Sarah Ingham: People voted to take back control of Britain’s borders. The Government must now do so.
Policymakers should be asking themselves whose quality of life worsens thanks to the current unplanned mess.
Sarah Ingham: In these woke-not-bloke days, the military’s main mission is being increasingly overlooked
Those in power seem to actively dislike the culture which has made Britain’s forces globally respected.
Sarah Ingham: Is it too much to hope MPs can turn up for a debate on our civil liberties? Apparently so.
Labour’s Dawn Butler was one of the few to battle for the rights of the individual over the state.
Sarah Ingham: Social inequality can’t be fixed by erasing Britain’s history
It is a litany of uncomfortable and inconvenient truths. Obsessing over these does little to spur progress.
Sarah Ingham: The Government could learn a thing or two from Britain’s panic buyers
At least they know how to identify, assess and prepare for risks – unlike ministers, it seems.
Sarah Ingham: “Yes Please” to Nuclear Power
The only way the circle of net zero can be squared with reliable, carbon-free and cheap supply is by embracing home-grown nuclear power.
Sarah Ingham: With our closest NATO ally leaving us high and dry, it’s time to junk the pieties about Britain’s role in the world
Too many defence reviews have followed the Blairite sentiment that we are an instrument for global wellbeing.
Sarah Ingham: How much should we take from, say, the NHS budget to fund a unilateral mission in Afghanistan – if anything?
Regime change usually involves chaos, bloodshed and a humanitarian crisis. Has the Stop the War movement become Continue the Military Intervention?
Sarah Ingham: Women’s hard-won rights must not be sacrificed to appease the trans lobby
Militant activism – which has somehow failed to realise that unscrupulous men might game the self-identification system – is promoting yet more division.
Sarah Ingham: Why is so much art in Britain’s public realm either ugly, witless or pointless?
Too often councillors are cheerleaders-in-chief for incongruous cultural blots on our landscapes.
Sarah Ingham: The NHS failed the nation during the pandemic. Awarding it the George Cross was a mistake.
Furthermore, by allowing the Queen to do this, the Government has dragged the monarch into the political murk.
Sarah Ingham: COIN against Covid. We have to live with the Taliban. And with the virus.
The mission creep characterising Britain’s most recent misadventure in Afghanistan is mirrored by the Government’s campaign against Covid.
Sarah Ingham: Tech, tax – and out of this world wealth
It would be easy to write off the attitude of both as ‘only little earthlings pay taxes’, but the current taxation system allows them to get away with it.
Sarah Ingham: A blue party + green promises = yellow vests
As the Government ushers us towards net zero, it had better be sure of the science. Unless it’s willing to risk a British equivalent of the Gilets Jaunes.
Sarah Ingham: Fat is a lockdown issue
The State continues to restrict personal freedom in a bid, it claims, to save life, while trying to avoid spelling out the risks to life caused by excess weight.