Andrew Lilico: Higher unemployment could be a necessary condition for recovery

There's been much discussion recently, amongst finance journalists, about whether the employment data suggests that the economy has turned and… Read more »

Andrew Lilico: Ed Miliband is wrong – Retail and investment arms of banks need not split

Over the weekend, Ed Miliband has threatened that if banks do not themselves choose to separate their retail and investment… Read more »

Andrew Lilico: What would be the details of a Conservative-UKIP pact?

I have recently joined longer-standing advocates of a Conservative-UKIP pact, such as Daniel Hannan and Toby Young. Some folk will… Read more »

Andrew Lilico: Islam and Mohammed should not be protected from mockery

If you produce a Bible pickled in urine, you might be a candidate for the Turner Prize.  If you used… Read more »

Andrew Lilico: It’s time to promise a referendum and seek an electoral pact with UKIP

I don't support UKIP.  I've never advocated leaving the EU.  I don't think immigration's all that big an issue (illegal… Read more »

Andrew Lilico: Over the very long haul, all that really matters is technology and religion

It's sometimes claimed that the values of our society arise game-theoretically, that something about complex societies with an interplay of… Read more »

Andrew Lilico: When democracies stop working

Democracy can a splendid alternative to civil war.  Though it is the natural enemy of liberty and property, it is… Read more »

Andrew Lilico: Barroso’s EU “federation” will render Britain’s EU membership irrelevant, and British politicians need to catch up with events

Over the long haul, the most politically significant speech made by any policy-maker in the past couple of weeks is… Read more »

Andrew Lilico: Why some new customs union or single market arrangement would be better for the UK, post EU, than universal free trade

I have written before that I expect the UK to leave the EU soon (probably during the next Parliament), and… Read more »

Andrew Lilico: No discrimination without monopsony power!

In a remarkable turn of events, as part of a series of test cases on religious discrimination before the European Court of… Read more »

Andrew Lilico: Europe is the real threat to US hegemony

Many pieces have been written, recently, discussing the end of US hegemony. Some frame this in terms of internal US… Read more »

Andrew Lilico: Learn from the power of love

My favourite book to read my children when they were very small was "Love you forever" by Robert Munsch.  In… Read more »

Andrew Lilico: We shouldn’t underestimate the electoral appeal of the Coalition not having made the economy worse

Politics is paralysed. I want to write about my schemes for the reform of welfare, or university funding, or healthcare,… Read more »

Andrew Lilico: That New Statesman exclusive – have the economists really turned on Osborne’s strategy… or not?

The New Statesman claims to have an exclusive this evening, saying that many of the economists that signed a Sunday… Read more »

Andrew Lilico: Brogan and Hoskin are wrong – the Conservative Party can win the next General Election

Benedict Brogan puts it starkly: "Defeat in 2015 looks certain."  Pete Hoskin declares there to be "dwindling hope for a… Read more »