Britain’s record on road safety should be a source of national pride
The terrible truth is that, to a large extent, each country chooses how many people will die on its roads
Edited by Peter Franklin
Now would be an excellent time for a post-mortem on the 2015 Conservative election campaign
Imagine if a pre-mortem had been performed on the plans for the 2010 campaign.
Islamism is far from being the biggest extremist threat to our schools
Leftwing extremists have waged a relentless campaign to spread their insane ideas throughout the state education system
Heresy of the week: Europhiles should welcome the AfD’s membership of the ECR
The only reason why David Cameron directed Tory MEPs to vote against the AfD is because Angela Merkel told him to
George Monbiot says defend British soil and crackdown on subsidy junkies: how’s that for a Conservative agenda?
One can make a case for paying farmers to look after the countryside – but paying them to destroy it is indefensible
The hidden graves at the heart of London’s insane property market
The archeologists of the future will discover a strange city where the rich lived underground while those of more limited means squeezed themselves into tiny apartments
Clever, complicated and fundamentally wrong: economics is the alchemy of our times
Armed with theories and formulae that aren’t accessible to outsiders, the economics profession has gained a privileged position in the policy making process
UKIP has transformed the electoral map – so let’s reach out to Lib Dem voters
We be witnessing the birth of an intriguing new phenomenon – tactical voting by left-ish voters for the Conservative Party
Heresy of the week: It’s the irreligious right that secular liberals should worry about
Could it be that our increasingly secular society, while more tolerant, is less compassionate?
It’s grim down south – or why ministers would rather not find shale gas under Sussex
It looks like Sussex won’t be the new Saudi Arabia after all.
Prime Minister Ken Clarke and other absurd fantasies
Would a Conservative Party led by him have beaten UKIP?
Government and the unions must get behind the self-employment revolution
Our high level of self-employment is sometimes blamed for Britain’s comparatively low-level of labour productivity, but this ignores the hidden efficiencies
Relax, Britain isn’t getting more racist
There is an obvious media appetite for any titbit that might be used to portray Britain as a nation sliding into extremism
Heresy of the week: Our leaders have no idea what they’re doing – but that’s the way they like it
What is it that causes our politicians to make so many unforced errors?
Capitalism won’t be destroyed by its failures, but its greatest success is another matter
What happens to capitalism once marginal costs fall to the point at which its products can be given away for free?
