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Bookies, barbers and black markets: Burnham’s high-street delusion
The high-street bookmaker is already in decline from taxation and over-regulation. Lumping bookies in with barbers and vape shops lets the government…
 • Jake Weston
Fear, favour and failure: the crisis in British policing
After high-profile cases where forces have failed to protect the public or overstepped the mark in relation to free speech and journalism, read Claire…
 • Claire Fox
Have we lost our appetite for work?
The summer is a time to kick back and relax – but it seems like many in society are doing that all year round. Why?
 • Alastair Donald
What should we do about climate change?
For many people, we just need to ‘look out the window’ to see climate change is real and dangerous. But what we really need is a well-informed, nuanced…
 • Rob Lyons
War with Iran goes from bad to worse
Why does the West get involved in conflicts that it can never win?
 • Rob Lyons

July 2026

Selling off the World Cup: why FIFA’s plan is a step too far
It might be naïve to think that football belongs to the fans. But we can demand the integrity of the sport is maintained.
 • Jake Weston
Narrative control: the collapsing authority of the state
The populist surge has become an existential threat to the establishment – and their response is ever-more authoritarian measures to govern what we can…
 • Jacob Reynolds
Inside the Lords: it's been a tough week
The death of my former Brexit Party colleague Ann Widdecombe has cast a shadow – and the response to it in some quarters has been shameful.
 • Claire Fox
Britain’s free-speech immaturity
Rhys Laverty of the Prosperity Institute argues that by losing the ability to civilly disagree we have become like petulant children constantly running…
 • Rhys Laverty and Claire Fox
Living Freedom Summer School begins!
Tonight, around 100 young adults from the UK, Europe and America will gather in London for three days of discussion and debate on how we can renew the…
 • Alastair Donald
The dangerous cult of natural birth
Ella Whelan looks at the cultural changes needed to make NHS maternity care fit for purpose. PLUS: join us at the Ideas Matter residential school, The…
 • Ella Whelan
On the wrong side of the Green Party, the right side of the law
Committed environmentalist Emma Bateman explains her battles with her own party over trans and in defence of women's rights.
 • Emma Bateman
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