2022
16 March New Statesman Extending the Ukrainian refugee scheme to Afghans would be a Tory win
22 February Mail Plus Boris Johnson has risen to the Ukraine challenge but these sanctions are the beginning, not the end
18 February Mail Plus Hurrah! We’ve beaten Covid, so let’s celebrate getting back to normality
16 February Mail Plus Cheap energy is the answer to inflationary woes, so why are we sitting on a 21st century goldmine of it?
10 February Mail Plus Of course ending Covid rules early is a political decision. But now is the right time to get back to normal
08 February Mail Plus This mini-reshuffle is the sign of a Prime Minister fearful of making even more enemies
03 February Mail Plus Thanks for the rebate Rishi, but why not fix our archaic and unjust council tax bands?
02 February Mail Plus A boost for Boris! The PM is back on buoyant form – now he needs to win back trust and DELIVER
28 January Mail Plus Time for the Tories to return to their roots – business not tax hikes should power our NHS
26 January Mail Plus The partygate scandal is bunging up the bandwith of our politics. For all our sakes, we MUST move on
24 January Mail Plus Tory MPs rushing to commit regicide on Boris should ask themselves one question: What happens next?
24 January CapX No, lockdown sceptics have not been vindicated
21 January Mail Plus With Putin lining troops up on Ukraine’s border, now is not the time for a torrid Tory civil war
19 January Mail Plus The deadly drip-drip-drip of Dastardly Dom’s dossier, MPs in open revolt and David Davis’s historic intervention – has a PM EVER faced a week like this?
17 January Mail Plus No wonder politicians broke the rules. Like the rest of us, they struggled to stick to a farcical roster of ever-changing restrictions
14 January Mail Plus From Downing Street leaks to Chinese Communist Party spies – we ignore these security threats at our peril
13 January CapX A British Baby Boom: we should aim for a population of 100m in the next two decades
12 January Mail Plus The Prime Minister FINALLY apologises. But is it too little, too late?
12 January The New Statesman Tom Harwood’s Diary: Taking on the right over the trans debate, falling for the Twitter trap, and Macron’s winning populism
10 January Mail Plus Lateral flow tests aren’t ‘free’ – they cost the taxpayer billions and we cannot rely on them for ever
06 January Mail Plus The acquittal of the ‘Colston four’ wasn’t a victory for justice – it was a surrender to mob rule
05 January The New Statesman Why the right should champion trans rights
04 January Mail Plus The anti-trans crusade is an affront to our belief in liberty and at odds with the view of the public
2021
31 December Mail Plus The PM needs a policy plan and fast to shake off a hellish two months of wine, cheese and sleaze
28 December Mail Plus A year is an eternity in politics – and 2021 was a rollercoaster of scandals, shocks and endless humiliating U-turns
27 December Mail Plus You’d be an idiot to think you can win over anti-vaxxers with cheap insults, Mr Blair
20 December Mail Plus It’s corona crunch time, Boris. You HAVE to make a decision on Christmas
17 December Mail Plus It’s time for the Tories to hit the reset button after the catastrophe of the North Shropshire by-election
15 December Mail Plus The simple way to beat Omicron? Move Christmas day to Epiphany!
13 December Mail Plus Boris Johnson must find an ideology FAST – before backbench grumbling turns into full-scale rebellion
1 December Mail Plus Sir Keir Starmer’s gloves are off… now the Tories need to punch back – and stop banging on about Brexit
29 November CapX “What’s really fuelling the energy crisis?”
24 November Mail Plus Your enemies smell blood, so stop the self-inflicted bungles, Boris – and get on with your job!
19 November CapX Cannabis legalisation is a huge opportunity – we mustn’t let it go to pot
18 November Mail Plus Being a constituency MP IS a part time job for big name politicians of ALL parties
11 November Mail Plus Forget the extremists – we need to have MORE not fewer children to beat climate change!
9 November CapX Is Greta Thunberg a secret climate change denier?
4 November Mail Plus The Government’s handling of the Owen Paterson affair could barely have been handled more incompetently. It’s weakened the PM’s ability to govern
1 November Mail Plus A farcical rail meltdown might have left climate activists forced to fly, but Britain still leads the way when it comes to carbon!
27 October Mail Plus Rishi, the Tory Jekyll and Hyde: How the Chancellor’s ‘Brexity Blairism’ budget throws fiscal constraint to the wind
14 October Mail Plus “Pregnant women and paramedics blocked, drivers forced to become vigilantes – it’s time these M25 eco warriors were safely ‘insulated’ behind bars”
12 October Mail Plus “Londoners want our night Tube back but Sadiq Khan and union dinosaurs would rather keep pointless, overpaid drivers in work elsewhere”
27 September Mail Plus “Angela Rayner’s ‘Tory scum’ insult tells us little about the Conservatives but a lot about the toxic state of floundering Labour”
16 September Mail Plus “Big hitters who mean business: Boris’ reshuffled Cabinet will build Britain back better”
9 September Mail Plus “Taxing the young is a bad idea, Boris, and pouring billions into the bottomless NHS pit won’t win you the bidding war with Labour either”
11 September Mail Plus “Don’t cry for Geronimo the bleating time-bomb. The altruistic alpaca died so others can live – and will live on as an internet icon”
24 August Mail Plus “Let’s call these pious Extinction Rebellion ‘activists’ by their real name: terrorists. And call in the police”
18 August Mail Plus “To ban the burqa would be as bad as enforcing its use”
16 August Mail Plus “Don’t be deceived by his Disney-like cuteness, Geronimo the alpaca is a potential mass killer and has to die now”
22 July Mail Plus “Sorry, but now is NOT the time for a bumper NHS pay rise”
19 July Mail Plus “Hands, face, space is a useless slogan against this airborne disease. How about ‘open a bloody window’ instead?”
15 July Mail Plus “Yes, let’s weed out the racist trolls, but we MUST recognise Britain has come a long way in the fight against discrimination”
16 June Mail Plus “GB News is shaking up the stale, metropolitan news agenda – no wonder left-wing mobs are trying to cancel us”
15 June GB News “Boris Johnson commits to publishing booster jabs plan”
14 June GB News “Boris Johnson announces Freedom Day to be pushed back by a month”
14 June GB News “Government should bear the blame for Freedom Day delay”
31 May GB News “The UK’s business-minded approach to vaccine procurement is the reason behind our world-beating programme”
05 April Mail Plus “If we don’t get our freedom back on June 21, people will rightly feel betrayed”
26 March Mail Plus “The jealous EU should stop trying to give us Brits a bloody nose – and try learning from us instead”
23 March Mail Plus “We can’t let the EU send us back into lockdown – it’s time to shut the border with Europe”
16 March Mail Plus “Forget the EU! To tackle neo-communist China, Britain needs new friends”
05 March The Telegraph “The Chancellor must stick to his guns on nurses’ pay”
26 February The Telegraph “By clobbering businesses with taxes, Rishi Sunak is ceding the intellectual argument to Labour”
19 February The Telegraph “Keir Starmer’s ‘blank slate’ strategy just isn’t working”
11 February The Telegraph “People railing against border closures are making a fourth lockdown more likely”
28 January The Telegraph “The socialist prime minister of Portugal is on a mission to level down his country”
22 January The Telegraph “Good news from Nissan provides more proof that Brexiteers were right”
15 January The Telegraph “Labour Remainers still can’t grasp how self-governance works”
08 January The Telegraph “The Republican Party must follow Labour’s deradicalisation attempts”
05 January The Telegraph “One last push and our misery could be over – the Government must make this lockdown count”
2020
24 December 2020 The Telegraph “Brexiteers almost lost everything – now they have almost won everything”
21 December 2020 The Telegraph “Britain is being punished for alerting the world to a new crisis”
13 December 2020 The Telegraph “No Deal unleashes a raft of economic opportunities. It’s up to us to embrace them”
08 December 2020 The Telegraph “Vaccine V-Day is a gamechanger for those trapped in Covid purgatory”
04 December 2020 The Telegraph “We can only meet our green targets by doing the exact opposite of what’s in XR’s manifesto”
01 December 2020 The Telegraph “By abstaining on the lockdown vote, Starmer has condemned Labour to irrelevance”
20 November 2020 The Telegraph “As the Pogues’ row shows, an irate minority has been given powers it does not deserve”
08 November 2020 The Telegraph “US election deniers are behaving like diehard Remainers”
02 November 2020 The Telegraph “Whoever wins this Presidential race, the Left has already lost”
25 October 2020 The Telegraph “Mark Drakeford’s barmy Wales power grab exposes deep flaws in devolution”
16 October 2020 The Telegraph “The nation’s mental health will not survive another lockdown”
09 October 2020 The Telegraph “Why does the fawning media let Nicola Sturgon get away with Scotland’s Covid failure?”
06 October 2020 The Telegraph “The Tories are still failing to lay a glove on Starmer’s Labour”
25 September 2020 The Telegraph “Scotland’s imprisonment of students is extreme and dehumanising”
18 September 2020 The Telegraph “Remainers like Keir Starmer opened the dangerous door to Scottish separatism”
08 September 2020 The Telegraph “The complacent EU will only have itself to blame for No Deal”
04 September 2020 The Telegraph “For the sake of liberalism, the Conservatives cannot let Tony Abbott be Scrutoned”
27 August 2020 The Telegraph “After abandoning liberalism and democracy, what is the point now of the Liberal Democrats?”
19 August 2020 The Telegraph “This Presidential race is far from over. Far-Left Democrats may yet alienate Middle America”
18 August 2020 The Telegraph “Teacher predictions are a lamentable substitute for real exams”
12 August 2020 The Telegraph “What business is it of Ben & Jerry’s to virtue signal on Twitter about illegal immigration?”
7 August 2020 ConservativeHome “Implementing the Planning White Paper will stem the tide of young people turning to Labour”
7 August 2020 The Telegraph “Boris Johnson needs Reaganite resolve to take on the teaching unions”
21 July 2020 The Telegraph “The Russia report has forced Remainer cranks to find new conspiracy theories”
10 July 2020 The Telegraph “Nicola Sturgeon is using nationalism to deflect from Scotland’s Covid fiasco”
25 June 2020 The Telegraph “Rebecca Long-Bailey’s sacking has triggered a vicious new phase in Labour’s civil war”
19 June 2020 The Telegraph “It is a mark of Keir Starmer’s ineptitude that the Tories are still ahead in the polls”
12 June 2020 The Telegraph “Real issues are being ignored in this farcical culture war”
29 May 2020 The Telegraph “No 10’s refusal to bend to pressure over Cummings is a warning to Brussels”
25 May 2020 The Telegraph “Keir Starmer’s brazen hypocrisy over Cummings”
22 May 2020 The Telegraph “Covid proves we urgently need a new quango bonfire, starting with Public Health England”
19 May 2020 The Telegraph “Virtual Parliament is a shambolic insult to British democracy”
12 May 2020 The Telegraph “Nicola Sturgeon’s confused coronavirus messaging is putting lives at risk”
11 May 2020 The Telegraph “The Left’s hysterical ‘confusion’ over No 10’s plan is utterly transparent”
29th April 2020 The Telegraph “The BBC’s unforgivably Trot-dominated Panorama shows why we need transparency”
31st March 2020 Free Market Conservatives “Now is the time to liberalise Sunday trading laws”
23rd March 2020 Free Market Conservatives “The government’s economic response to the Coronacrisis is necessary, but the measures must be temporary”
19th March 2020 The Telegraph “We cannot let these authoritarian coronavirus measures become the new normal”
17th March 2020 Free Market Conservatives “Post-Corona, the Tories will have to buck up their budget ideas”
10th March 2020 Free Market Conservatives “When will the Left finally realise that money alone cannot win elections?”
2nd March 2020 Free Market Conservatives “The government must not give in to the agenda of civil servants like Sir Philip Rutnam”
25th February 2020 Free Market Conservatives “In the race for the White House, Bernie Sanders is the Dems’ worst option – and Hillary Clinton created him”
19th February 2020 Free Market Conservatives “Rishi Sunak Must Make His Mark By Resisting Siren Calls For Short Term Profligacy”
10th February 2020 Free Market Conservatives “Are the Corbynites finally losing their grip on Labour?”
4th February 2020 Free Market Conservatives “The government should quietly drop its proposed Digital Services Tax”
27th January 2020 Free Market Conservatives “Miserable Remainer Responses to Brexit Celebrations Show Why They Lost”
24th January 2020 The Telegraph “Slippery Lisa Nandy will struggle to win over the no-nonsense North”
20th January 2020 Free Market Conservatives “Labour’s first leadership hustings revealed a party detached from reality”
14th January 2020 Free Market Conservatives “2020 is proving Brexit was never the problem of the last three years. The problem was politicians”
10th January 2020 Free Market Conservatives “Meghan and Harry need to understand that there is no such thing as a free lunch”
7th January 2020 Free Market Conservatives “Labour has changed irrecoverably. Conservatives can’t let the public forget it”
2019
16th December 2019 Free Market Conservatives “Our Stale Groupthink Institutions Need to Change or Go”
9th December 2019 Free Market Conservatives “Spineless So-Called Labour ‘Moderates’ Could Plunge the UK into a State of Socialist Extremism”
6th December 2019 The Telegraph “Major and Blair have debased the Prime Ministerial office by fomenting political paralysis”
3rd December 2019 Free Market Conservatives “Labour’s NHS scaremongering is based on shameless lies”
29th November 2019 Free Market Conservatives “Channel 4’s Disgraceful Conduct Last Night Shows Why Broadcasting Reform is so Necessary”
21st November 2019 The Telegraph “Why the Lib Dem implosion could change everything in this election”
19th November 2019 Free Market Conservatives “Labour have slid even further to the extreme left”
9th November 2019 Free Market Conservatives “This is the freedom election”
8th November 2019 The Telegraph “When it comes to the Lib Dems and lying, it’s go big or go home”
2nd November 2019 Free Market Conservatives “Farage Has Made a Huge Mistake”
30th October 2019 The Telegraph “The Lib Dems have just gambled away Brexit for the sake of winning a few more seats”
25th October 2019 Free Market Conservatives “This is a Rotten Parliament”
8th October 2019 The Telegraph “The intransigent EU will quickly regret killing this final chance for a Brexit deal”
1st October 2019 The Telegraph “What the Conservative Party Conference lacked in MPs it made up for in defiant unity”
18th September 2019 The Telegraph “The EU’s leaders are trying to humiliate Britain, not negotiate with us”
13th September 2019 The Telegraph “Leavers must brace themselves for the most audacious second referendum plot yet”
9th September 2019 Free Market Conservatives “The Hypocrisy of Philip Hammond”
5th September 2019 The Telegraph “Labour’s bizarre general election U-turn”
4th September 2019 The Telegraph “It’s time the Tories went nuclear on this flagrantly partisan Speaker”
11th August 2019 The Telegraph “How did Michael Heseltine become the go-to Grandee Oracle on all things Brexit?”
8th August 2019 The Telegraph “Will deluded John McDonnell stop at nothing to realise his ‘October Revolution’ fantasy?”
24th July 2019 The Telegraph “This ‘Night of the Long Knives’ has Dominic Cummings’ fingerprints all over it”
17th July 2019 The Telegraph “Theresa May’s final speech as Prime Minister secured her legacy as patron saint of the soggy centre”
15th July 2019 The Telegraph “Gina Miler is Back and Fooling No One”
1st July 2019 The Telegraph “Sorry, Mr Hunt – Leavers simply can’t trust you to deliver Brexit”
11th June 2019 The Telegraph “Thatcherites Should be Worried by the Rise of Rory Stewart”
30th May 2019 The Telegraph “Hypocritical Remainers are disturbingly obsessed with crushing Boris Johnson”
1st March 2019 The Spectator “The myth of the ‘millennial’ Corbyn project”
28th January 2019 ConservativeHome “Threats to free speech on campus are no myth”
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