1+ hour, 3+ min ago   (589+ words) James Hodgkinson is a Research Associate at the Adam Smith Institute. He currently serves as a Parish Councillor, and Vice Chairman of the KALC Canterbury Area Committee. If you talk to ordinary voters, you’ll find that many don’t really care…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (863+ words) Chase Blount studies at the University of Bath. He is the Deputy Chair of Torfaen Conservatives and is Chair of Libertarian Conservatives UK. A sin tax, otherwise known as a vice goods tax, is an indirect tax on goods considered…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (563+ words) Peter Franklin is an Associate Editor of UnHerd. Say what you like about the wealth tax advocate Gary Stevenson — and just about everyone has lately — but, at least, he’s been willing to face his adversaries. He interviewed some of them…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago   (144+ words) George Beglan holds an LLM (Distinction) from Durham and read Jurisprudence at Oxford; he has published on law reform in the Cambridge Law Review Britain’s fertility rate is 1.41. Replacement is 2.1. The gap between those two numbers is not a cultural…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (841+ words) Dr Daniel Pitt is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Buckingham. Daniel Pitt’s ConservativeHome column is usually on a Friday and will continue to be so, but was moved last week due to Local Election coverage. From now on…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (387+ words) Mark Littlewood is Director of Popular Conservatism. For those of a free market inclination, the late great Eric Morecambe has become a very useful ally. In one of his many great comedy skits – in which he is displaying his complete…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (593+ words) Callum Price is Director of Communications at the Institute of Economic Affairs, and a former Government special adviser. As voters head to the ballot box today, they will not be voting for overarching national strategies to fix our economy, such…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (164+ words) Charles Amos is a PhD student in political philosophy alongside working in the haulage industry. He writes The Musing Individualist Substack in his spare time. Recently I went to a pub in Witney and since it was such a sunny…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (722+ words) Emma Revell is External Affairs Director at the Centre for Policy Studies. Growth is probably the most overused and under-delivered word in British politics. And why shouldn’t those bosses take the punt? The Conservatives may think of themselves as the…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (340+ words) Alexander Bowen is a trainee economist based in Belgium, specialising in public policy assessment, and a policy fellow at a British think tank. The state causes inequality. Let’s start with giving out benefits. In essence overstating the numerator and understating…...