Andrew Tettenborn

Labour’s worrying creep back towards the EU

10 October 2024 1:10 am

In Labour’s manifesto this year, Keir Starmer cannily sought to reassure any Brexiteers out there by ruling out a return to the…

Boris is right: we need a referendum on the ECHR

4 October 2024 10:03 pm

Nobody should be surprised that Boris Johnson favours a referendum on leaving the ECHR, as his book now makes clear. Boris…

Why tuition fees should go up

30 September 2024 4:41 pm

The fees English universities are allowed to charge home students in England are fixed by government fiat. At £9,250 per…

Labour’s two-tier prison plans

26 September 2024 6:30 pm

There are not many women in prison, but those who are inside show worryingly high rates of mental illness, suicide…

Why the cost of replacing Britain’s border fleet has soared to £300 million

20 September 2024 4:10 am

The fleet of border control cutters responsible for patrolling our waters (and at times for dealing with irregular migrants on…

Labour is in denial about our bad universities

9 September 2024 9:38 pm

Our universities are in a mess. Too many degrees lack intellectual quality and utility, and leave those doing them with…

Scrapping one-word Ofsted verdicts is a mistake

2 September 2024 9:58 pm

The decision to scrap one or two-word Ofsted inspection grades for England’s schools is good news for teachers – but…

Starmer may regret an outdoor smoking ban

30 August 2024 1:40 am

It’s a curious political world. Few who voted Labour last month actually wanted Labour policies, or for that matter had…

The worrying return of non-crime hate incidents

29 August 2024 6:18 pm

The longer it continues in office, the more reactionary and beholden to vested interests this government turns out to be.…

Louise Haigh’s LTN policy is doomed to fail

23 August 2024 5:55 pm

The Labour party is in a bind over cars. Its instincts – collectivist, green, managerialist – strongly favour anti-car measures…

Are too many young people going to university?

15 August 2024 4:46 pm

University hopefuls trepidatiously opening their official A-level emails this morning will on the whole be happier than last year. All…

Will a social media crackdown really stop future riots?

12 August 2024 9:44 pm

The riots of 2024 will be remembered for many things. One of them is the way the establishment spectacularly closed…

Why Britain must say no – again – to China’s ‘super embassy’ in London

11 August 2024 4:32 pm

The previous Tory government may not have been very successful in containing the global ambitions of China, but at least…

24-hour courts are risky, but right

4 August 2024 7:48 pm

Yesterday evening, the government instituted a little-known procedure called the Additional Courts Protocol. Set up following the 2011 London riots,…

Does Labour care about free speech on campus?

27 July 2024 1:17 am

Universities fought tooth and nail against plans to impose fines if they failed to uphold freedom of speech. That proposal…

Letting the worst universities collapse would be an act of kindness

24 July 2024 3:15 pm

Nobody said much about it before the election, but the new government inherits a ghastly financial problem with the higher…

Just Stop Oil fanatics deserve their lengthy jail terms

19 July 2024 11:13 pm

The prison sentences passed on the Just Stop Oil protesters who immobilised the M25 – five years for Roger Hallam…

Have the Republicans resolved their abortion dilemma?

17 July 2024 5:36 pm

The botched assassination attempt on Donald Trump could well generate a wave of sympathy that helps waft him into the…

How Hungary’s presidency could shake up the EU

2 July 2024 9:15 pm

Life in the Berlaymont building, the Brussels headquarters of the European Union, just got a bit more surreal. A striking…

Unesco’s Stonehenge threat isn’t worth taking seriously

27 June 2024 11:33 pm

If you gaze south from the sarsens of Stonehenge, your view at present is of a constant crocodile of cars…

Assange is released – but there is still a danger to press freedom

25 June 2024 9:36 pm

James Cleverly may now be a care-and-maintenance Home Secretary, but even so he will be heaving a sigh of relief…

The Supreme Court has put the future of fossil fuel projects in jeopardy

21 June 2024 12:46 am

‘Britain is evolving from a democracy towards a kritarchy – the rule of lawyers,’ wrote Ross Clark in today’s Spectator magazine. His…

Reform’s radical manifesto would do wonders for democracy

18 June 2024 12:28 am

In this election, neither Labour nor the Tories are particularly interested in serious constitutional reform. By contrast, there’s one smaller…

Cosying up to the EU would do Britain more harm than good

16 June 2024 12:18 am

If anyone thought our relations with the EU since the Brexit referendum would be a respectful dialogue of equals, they…

Why the EU is cracking down on Hungary’s migrant policy

14 June 2024 8:48 pm

We are set for another high-profile tussle between Budapest and Brussels. Yesterday the EU Court of Justice chose to impose a…