We do think this is possibly a little unfair
Zarah Sultana’s unauthorised launch of a Your Party membership portal may have been “serious criminal activity” and should be referred to the police, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has advised.
The bureaucracy is not the thing
It’s possible that the US leaving UNFCCC is a great idea, it’s possible it’s a terrible one.
Unfunded welfare
Much of Western Europe is living beyond its means, with current welfare programmes promising benefits that are not fully financed by today’s taxpayers, thereby shifting the bill to future generations through debt, higher future taxes, or reduced services.
Ah, no, sorry Ms. Badenoch, this does not work
That someone would like to do something to make pubs great again is welcome.
A class thing
Many commentators have noted that poor health diet and habits seem more prevalent among lower income groups.
Airport drop off charges are because some people are disturbed
One of the decisions of the past that could be seen to have been in error is the closing of the asylums and the outsourcing of the necessary attention to Care in the Community.
Isn’t market competition just the utmost gorgeousness?
The latest and greatest medical treatment for something that ails all too much of society is now available for one hour’s average work a week.
Judicial overreach
The Adam Smith Institute approaches 2026 with confidence, not because it underestimates the problems Britain faces, but because it believes those problems can be solved, and because it intends to spend the year proposing solutions to them.
We’re at the “Oh, but it’s good that it happens” stage now
The UK is poised for a rise in unemployment in 2026 fuelled by the collapse of “zombie” companies that have struggled to adapt to a rise in business costs, according to a report.
A big story of 2025
Although 2025 was, in Edward Gibbon’s words, ‘a register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind,’ with the usual acts of terror and mass murder, earthquakes, floods and wildfires, one of the biggest stories was not about politics or nature, but about science.
Edmund Burke wins again
Or, apparently, government isn’t simply the things we do together. Even, it’s possible to do things together without it being government - at which point Edmund Burke and the Little Platoons win once again.