Lockdown Scepticism Was Never a ‘Fringe’ Viewpoint The Declaration states that achieving herd immunity for COVID-19 can be assisted by vaccines, “but is not dependent” on their use. Noah Carl 2 Mar 2021 · 11 min read
Scottish Nationalists in Turmoil The trans argument shows how easily it may be rocked back on its heels. Neither of the two women at loggerheads are transphobic on any but an extreme definition; they merely differ about how easy it should be to register a sex change. John Lloyd 4 Feb 2021 · 10 min read
COVID-19's Death Toll: A Historical Perspective The UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reported the age-standardised mortality rate in England each year going back to 2001. Noah Carl 24 Jan 2021 · 6 min read
Rise of the Coronavirus Cranks The smileys are not bad people. They are not necessarily unintelligent people. They are unhappy people wearing a mask of happiness, confused and beaten and searching for an easy answer. Christopher J. Snowdon 16 Jan 2021 · 19 min read
Britain Needs a New Approach to Homelessness The money offered by benevolent citizens and the abundance of cheap drugs act as a magnet for the area. Noel Yaxley 15 Jan 2021 · 11 min read
Despised—A Review Embery offers a plan to implement his vision of a well ordered and prosperous country that values its conservative Somewhere members as much as its Anywhere cultural and economic elite. Henry George 2 Dec 2020 · 7 min read
Commemorating Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary each paid a high price for defying convention. They both entered into relationships out-of-wedlock at a time when doing so was enough to put a woman out of good society. Lona Manning 18 Nov 2020 · 10 min read
The Russia Report It is “widely recognised,” says the report, “that Russian intelligence and business are completely intertwined". John Lloyd 12 Aug 2020 · 13 min read
Twilight of Democracy—A Review And when Brexit is assumed to be a matter of nostalgia, there has to be evidence drawn from those who actually voted for it, and not just from those members of the elite who worked or wrote in its support. John Lloyd 1 Aug 2020 · 14 min read
Alex Salmond's Moral Corruption Salmond simply ignores all comment that he is morally tarnished by continuing to work for RT. John Lloyd 3 Apr 2020 · 9 min read
The Case Against a Second EU Referendum If one referendum isn’t enough to resolve the matter, why would two be enough? Madeline Grant 21 Jan 2019 · 11 min read
Trump, NATO and the Persistent Myths of International Relations If one is serious about defending liberal order, then one should be prepared to spend. After all, freedom isn’t free, and Uncle Sucker won’t be there forever. Sumantra Maitra 17 Jan 2017 · 5 min read
UK Labour’s Failure to Understand Its Voters Has Sent It Into Existential Crisis The real task is to regain popular trust and a place in the life of ordinary people. Adrian Pabst 28 Jun 2016 · 4 min read
Breaking Down Brexit: How the UK Voted At 72%, turnout was extraordinarily high by the standards of recent general elections, but especially in the pro-Leave areas. Paul Webb 24 Jun 2016 · 4 min read