There comes a point at which political correctness becomes an inquisition – a method of shutting down free speech by twisting words to political ends.
Empty upmarket properties are essentially parasitic, accumulating value thanks to the surrounding hive of activity while contributing nothing towards it
Modern-day Multhusians insist that reducing child mortality will only result in overpopulation and all the problems that come with it. But are they right?
The system should be shaped by residents, small-scale developers and practitioners of good design – not lawyers, consultants and the big developers.
The shameful truth is that Western intervention has been a catastrophe for the Christian inhabitants of Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries
If national government were as efficient as local government we’d much closer to balancing the books.
The long-term effects of Osborne’s slash-and-burn approach to welfare are less certain than IDS’s more considered approach.
The conventional left want as much redistribution as they can get away with – but this makes them more not less dependent on the wealthy.
Whereas the collapse of communism in eastern Europe was a triumph for the West, the fall of the North Korean regime could result in a stunning defeat
While refraining from sentimentality about the countryside, we need to re-learn a bit of respect for nature
The impact of sex-selective abortion is not confined to the womb. If practiced on a sufficient scale, it will have a distorting effect on society as a whole.
Labour politicians still hark back to the fate of British industry in the 1980s, but they conveniently forget about the damage done by Gordon Brown’s boom-and-bust
Europe’s not so hot these days, so self-denigrating Britons must look further afield for defeatist inspiration.
While cannabis might be relatively harmless to policy-makers, the same does not apply to ordinary working people.
Here comes another crazy scheme to use up Britain’s plutonium stockpile.