Andrew Lilico: Anti-abortionists should concede neither the science nor the compassion to pro-abortionists

Those that term themselves "pro-choice" like to present their position as being "scientific" and the position of their opponents as… Read more »

Andrew Lilico: Three challenges for the new Archbishop of Canterbury

This post was composed jointly with the Rev Peter Ould, who blogs at www.peter-ould.net The incoming Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin… Read more »

Andrew Lilico: Inflation is too high and switching from QE to outright money-printing ain’t gonna help

The target measure of inflation, CPI, rose from 2.2% to 2.7% this month, well above the 2.4% expected.  As recently… Read more »

Andrew Lilico: One reason for constitutional monarchy and against fixed term parliaments

One of the most important constitutional disputes is that between the Jeffersonian (or "Democrat") and Burkean conceptions of democracy.  For… Read more »

Andrew Lilico: The Conservative Party has failed to win power by ignoring its intellectuals

Bruce Anderson tells us that Labour is now the party focused on power, whilst the Conservative Party has degenerated into… Read more »

Andrew Lilico: Engaging properly with the Europe issue will build political capital; not doing so will use it up

One of the worst strategic errors made by Cameron and Hague in 2009 came in the immediate aftermath of the… Read more »

Andrew Lilico: On Localism, Lord Heseltine is interestingly wrong

Michael Heseltine was, after Mandelson, Blair, and Portillo (in that order) my fourth favourite politician of the past two decades. … Read more »

Andrew Lilico: The “inflation hawks” weren’t wrong then and won’t be wrong now

The New Statesman recently declared: "The inflation hawks were wrong."  ConservativeHome's The Deep End tried to excuse them, declaring: "The inflation… Read more »

Andrew Lilico: On Europe, beware of “the tyranny of the status quo”

Any good Conservative recognises a bias towards the status quo; one should need more reason to change things than to… Read more »

Andrew Lilico: EU Get-outers need to get that we’re out

That's the trouble with hoping for the messiah for a long time – when people say he's turned up you condemn… Read more »

Andrew Lilico: Three things the abortion debate isn’t about

Since Jeremy Hunt's comments just before Party Conference, abortion has been back in the news.  When abortion is discussed, there… Read more »

Andrew Lilico: The Hayekian argument for Scottish independence

One of the strongest arguments the SNP has for its Scottish independence proposals seems, oddly, to have passed it by… Read more »

Andrew Lilico: Cameron’s speech – reaching out to the Centre from the Right

By 2005, Conservatives were broadly agreed that if we were to win we needed to appeal to a set of voters… Read more »

Andrew Lilico: Osborne’s medicine may taste horrible but it’s the best cure we have

As Chancellor, George Osborne faces a considerable problem, and it’s far from clear there is any politically feasible way he… Read more »

Andrew Lilico: Which Eurozone countries can and can’t cut deficits without currency devaluation?

Chart: Correlation between changes in government deficit and changes in exchange rate (click to enlarge) Source: Europe Economics analysis on… Read more »