Europe

Prison works. It punishes offenders by depriving them of their liberty. It protects the public by keeping dangerous individuals off the streets. But prison doesn’t work when it comes to…

The “Jobs act” has been one of the main reforms carried out by Renzi. It is essentially a system of interventions into the Italian labour market. The three-year time frame…

Yesterday, over 4,000 doctors and medical experts signed a letter expressing their “grave concerns” over the attitude and response to the Covid-19 pandemic from nations across the world. The primary…

The calling of a Defence Review is never propitious. While such audits are necessary to better address changing risks and threats, the dozen or so that have taken place in…

We have all seen the news in the past week of new students arriving for university only to discover that they are essentially prisoners in their halls of residents. Students…

So, the introduction of the new test and trace app went as well as expected. Which is to say, not very well at all. There seem to be two main…

At some point Boris will have to make a hard decision. Thus far, he has been riding along on the coat-tails of “the scientific advice”. However, it is clear that…

When the Maidan protests swept across Ukraine in 2014, resulting in the removal of the corrupt former President Viktor Yanukovych, one country outpaced the rest of the Western world when it…

Chancellor Rishi Sunak recently signalled via the national press that he wants to divert billions of pounds of foreign aid to bolster security. It is an answer to the prayer…

There are two things wrong with the current “Conservative Party”. The first is that it has no instinct to conserve; the second is everything it does seems to flow from…