J.P.Floru: In defence of tax havens. May’s threat to the British Overseas Territories is un-Conservative.

Do we really want them either to declare independence, or else become benefit claimants, funded by British taxpayers?

J P Floru: People only moan about the use of Facebook data when it is used by campaigns they dislike

If Hillary and Remain had won, using the same methods, would anyone at the Guardian or the BBC have cared a bean about Cambridge Analytica’s behaviour?

J.P.Floru: Let’s be Singapore – and prosperous, post-Brexit, beyond our wildest dreams

Basically, we need to undercut the world. We can do so if we slash red tape and tax. Within a very short period there would be a pronounced Laffer Effect.

J.P.Floru: How to inoculate your children against socialism

What can parents do? Avoid reading Robin Hood as a bedtime story? I asked around, and came up with a few answers.

JP Floru: Zac must respond to the hidden desires of Londoners

Continuing our series on what Goldsmith needs to do to be elected Mayor of London.

J.P.Floru: Never mind Foreign Office advice. The terrorists must not win. I’m off on holiday to Egypt

Imagine what our reaction would have been if the world had issued anti-travel advice against London after 7/7.

JP Floru: TfL’s attack on Uber is a blinkered attack on customers

By all means cut regulation on black cabs. But the cabbies’ union prefers to raise barriers to entry into the market.

JP Floru: Rent controls have never worked, ever

Labour will create an acute, artificial shortage of rental accommodation and a privileged class of subsidised tenants.

J.P.Floru: Want to win the election? Scrap Air Passenger Duty

It does nothing to reduce carbon emissions, increases the cost of living, keeps people in developing countries in poverty, and has a negative effect on the state finances.

JP Floru: Jihadists should be stripped of their British citizenship

As a naturalised Brit, it horrifies me that some of my fellow citizens wish to destroy our freedoms.

JP Floru: Boris is the new Boris – He will be one of our truly great Prime Ministers

Do you smell the excitement and hope in the air?

J P Floru: Banmania – and how to ban it

Too often we forget that banning something means that someone else’s freedom is going out of the window.

JP Floru: Frack, baby, frack! Away with the statism that stops drilling and prosperity

JP Floru is a Westminster Councillor, Senior Research Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute and writer of Heavens on Earth… Read more »

Queues at the state Post Offices and the Stockholm Syndrome

JP Floru is a Westminster Councillor, Senior Research Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute and writer of Heavens on Earth: How to Create… Read more »

JP Floru: Is Angela Merkel the soundest voice in Europe?

J P Floru is a Westminster councillor and Head of Programmes at the Adam Smith Institute. Follow J P on… Read more »