
Rainer Zitelmann: Wealth taxes would be neither popular nor Conservative. Sunak must remember this tomorrow.
Contrary to what members of the Labour Party say, the evidence demonstrates that the public desire for high taxes on the rich is low.
Contrary to what members of the Labour Party say, the evidence demonstrates that the public desire for high taxes on the rich is low.
The CBI supports the Government’s timetable and Starmer is keeping his head down. It is quite the turnaround.
These proposed changes suggest that Ministers’ resolve to address this type of abortion is weakening and, in Northern Ireland, evaporating.
Like it or not, the EU agreed to two customs territories on the island of Ireland – and a solution to the disagreement flows from that fact.
He advised the man who co-won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the Belfast Agreement – and argues that the backstop breaches it.
Europe has no Madisons to make the case for federalism, while the Leavers patronise us by pretending that leaving is without risk.
He made grotesque errors of taste and judgement – see “Rivers of Blood”. But even his critics admit that he was one of the great parliamentarians of the 20th century.
Amy Chua says they are blind to the decisive importance of tribal politics – an obliviousness which extends to America itself, and prepared the way for Trump.
Afua Hirsch recounts her inability, as a person of mixed race, to feel she truly belongs in either Britain or Ghana.
This competitive virtue-signalling allows mediocre people today to look back on past heroes.
The Stratford MP and ConservativeHome columnist is now banned from visiting his sons at Princeton, despite being a British citizen.
While Tusk and Barnier fume, the member states sound rather more emollient.
A modicum of sensitivity at Westminster might have seen the Easter Rising fizzle out. Ireland might have evolved peacefully into a self-governing Commonwealth ally.
“We need to tell voters that we’re the party that can challenge the SNP – now the only party that can challenge the SNP.”
“The Brits would be happier outside. But we don’t want them to leave.”