Heresy of the week: Our ‘child-centred’ society is nothing of the sort
All societies, no matter how liberal, must reproduce or die.
The Conservative Party still needs to be reformed: Here’s how to go about it
On both sides of the Atlantic, reformist conservatives are trying to change their parties.
Peter Franklin: Aspiration means nothing without supportive institutions
The switch in Conservative rhetoric from the “Big Society” to the “global race” comes at an odd time.
Will social liberals ever speak up for marriage?
Within the liberal worldview, marriage is all about what you want to do, not what you ought to do
Why do clever politicians make stupid decisions?
The sharpest tools in the box won’t help you if they’re all the same
Will Europe stop the Chancellor from balancing the budget?
The new neo-Keynesianism: Britain must run a deficit to prop-up demand in the Eurozone
Heresy of the week: We have an opportunity to instantly wipe out a third of our national debt – so let’s not take it
George Osborne faces a very special temptation – an opportunity to pull the mother of all fiscal fast ones
Ignore the headlines, the Labour Party is freakishly united
Sharp differences in opinion can be found in all the major parties, but in the Labour Party they don’t matter.
If we’re serious about shrinking the state, then we need an alternative to longer prison sentences
Prison works but at a heavy price
The state should stop subsidising poverty pay
Tax credits are meant to help the low paid but they also transfer resources from good to bad employers
The dead hand at the centre of British politics
Has Labour contracted out the development of its manifesto to an independent think tank? The short answer is ‘no’, but the long answer is much more interesting.
Heresy of the week: If Russia sends its gas to China, that would be a good thing
Russia’s pipeline politics isn’t just about Europe anymore
Would you trust Boris Johnson with an army of flying robots?
Imagine a swarm of drones hovering over a protest in Trafalgar Square – swooping down to take photographs, barking out orders, firing missiles
A simple way to make schools – and just about everything else – better: fire the worst people
The most incompetent teachers are like the worst-behaved pupils – unless they’re excluded, they spoil things for everyone else
Osborne’s Great Northern Super City – you read it here first
Reshaping England’s political and economic geography won’t happen unless the champions of the North are driving the Government’s agenda.