Poor Humza Yousaf. Just like most other weeks, this has been a rough one for the Scottish First Minister. After almost three years, the Bute House Agreement, which saw the SNP form a power-sharin...
During the grim days of Covid lockdowns, one of the few comforts for liberty-loving Britons was the knowledge that, however bad things were, we weren’t as bad as New Zealand. Tales of Antipodea...
The right of the British political spectrum is currently an arena of vicious hand-to-hand combat. Touchstones like immigration, gender identity and integration are central to the fighting, but so...
One of the principal villains in Liz Truss’s new memoir-cum-manifesto, Ten Years To Save The West, is the ‘deep state’. This idea of a network of unaccountable and often secret institutions...
To quote Ralph Waldo Emerson, ‘the louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons’. A tiresome aspect of the political power grab by judges over the last couple of decades h...
https://capx.co/judicial-overreach-is-throttling-our-democracy/
The Republic of Ireland entered a new political era this week, as Fine Gael’s 37 year-old leader, Simon Harris, was elected Taoiseach, replacing Leo Varadkar. The outgoing Irish Prime Minister ...
https://capx.co/will-simon-harris-do-any-better-than-leo-varadkar/
Both the Labour and Conservative parties are engaged in an unedifying bidding war as to which of them will tax rich foreigners the most. The war on non-doms makes for crude politics and dire econ...
Incessant complaints from local authorities from Orkney down to Cornwall and everywhere in between have created an echo chamber of opinion that councils are underfunded and helpless. In other wor...
https://capx.co/town-hall-fat-cats-are-bursting-at-the-seams/
As members of Aslef embark on more strike action over pay disputes, it’s worth reminding ourselves that it is still possible to reform and improve British trade unionism. In 2016, David Cameron...
In the aftermath of Sir Jeffrey Donaldson’s arrest, Northern Ireland’s political institutions and its largest unionist party face an uncertain future. Last week, the former DUP leader was cha...
https://capx.co/jeffrey-donaldsons-arrest-has-shaken-unionism/