Europe

Rishi Sunak’s latest bright idea, the road pricing scheme, is rumoured to be on the way after fuel tax revenues fell due to people’s gradual move to electric cars. People…

One of the little con tricks of politics is to call any type of public spending “investment”. Far too often, taxpayers’ money – whether splashed at some grand projet or…

It seems every political issue has come increasingly to resemble a moral ‘rumble in the jungle’. The latest issue to fall victim to moral pugilists is the Free School Meals…

The Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill was last week voted through its third reading in the House of Commons. Although the Bill was cleared by 345 votes to…

There were many great speeches opposing the new lockdown in the House of Commons on 4th November, but there were three which collectively summed up my reasons for opposing the…

Less than a year ago, Boris Johnson won an historic victory over the Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour Party. This saved the UK from being dragged into a Venezuelan like economic and…

On Sunday, both sides of the Azerbaijani and Armenian conflict blamed the other for the breakdown of the new truce. It is tragic that the truce, only a few hours…

On Sunday, Lithuania will go to the polls for the second round of voting in the 2020 election.  In the last election, in 2016, a leftist victory was secured by…

It is not controversial, I hope, to point out that this Government has exploited epidemiological uncertainty in service of the usual thing governments want: more power. The tedious description of…

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…