Sam Ashworth-Hayes

How the Isle of Man can save the Tory party

29 December 2022 6:00 pm

If you ask a typical member of the Conservative party what they want Britain to look like, you’ll get the usual list:…

In defence of Scrooge

24 December 2022 5:30 pm

There is no Christmas story like A Christmas Carol, and few seasonal characters as iconic as Ebenezer Scrooge; the ‘clutching,…

The Met Office isn’t to blame for possible blackouts

19 December 2022 5:15 pm

In the hierarchy of excuses for tipping Britain into a month of blackouts, ‘the Met Office didn’t say winter would…

Canada’s assisted dying catastrophe is a warning to Britain

11 December 2022 10:08 pm

In 1936, King George V lay on his deathbed. As his final hours drew near, the royal physician administered two injections of…

The Tories are taking from the young to pay for the old

20 November 2022 10:30 pm

To understand the Conservative party’s approach to government, it’s useful to think of there being two Britains. This is something…

Politicians haven’t been honest about immigration to Britain

3 November 2022 6:39 pm

What’s the most important story in Britain over the last 25 years? The financial crisis? Brexit? These events both changed our country dramatically. But neither has had…

Elon Musk's Twitter takeover isn't so bad

29 October 2022 2:33 am

It’s finally happened. After months of legal wrangling, Twitter has fallen. All hail King Elon; the ‘bird is freed’. The…

The decomposing of the Conservative mind

22 October 2022 3:05 am

The Chicxulub meteor did for the dinosaurs; Netflix saw off Blockbuster. When the time comes to write the history of…

The triple lock will condemn Britain

19 October 2022 10:50 pm

Liz Truss is almost exactly the leader the country is desperate for. Britain needs someone to take painful decisions and…

Stop blaming Tory members

18 October 2022 4:45 pm

With Jeremy Hunt installed as the representative Sensible and Penny Mordaunt answering questions in the House, Liz Truss has been…

Who would vote for the Conservatives now?

17 October 2022 6:00 pm

As the Labour party’s lead reaches 27 per cent or more, it would be easy to place the entirety of…

Liz Truss's immigration conundrum

14 October 2022 8:21 pm

The Conservatives – in office since 2010 – are now into their fourth successive manifesto pledge to bring down immigration,…

The Woman King's flawed history lesson

8 October 2022 4:30 pm

As a general rule, it’s worth remembering that Hollywood is in the business of mythologising, rather than retelling history. The…

What do the Tories have to show from their time in power?

2 October 2022 6:28 pm

After 12 years in Downing Street, four prime ministers (so far), two monarchs, and one mini-budget, the public are starting…

Is Europe’s attitude to asylum seekers changing?

27 September 2022 4:00 pm

The EU spent last November reinforcing its borders as Vladimir Putin directed a wave of refugees through Belarus towards the…

The shameful exploitation of Chris Kaba’s death

24 September 2022 5:30 pm

Why exactly is it that the journalists and politicians who claim to be most proud of multicultural, multiethnic Britain seem…

Don't blame the Queen for the British Empire

21 September 2022 2:06 am

If a country’s greatness can be measured by its enemies, Britain can set fears of national decline aside: we’re still…

The madness of Truss’s energy price cap

6 September 2022 10:20 pm

While Boris Johnson used his farewell speech to praise the ‘vital symmetry between government action and free market capitalist private…

Crime is being decriminalised

25 August 2022 4:43 pm

In February Joshua Carney, a man with 47 previous convictions, was released from prison early on licence. Five days later,…

Britain is not prepared for winter blackouts

23 August 2022 8:16 pm

Britain has a bold new plan for dealing with a winter energy crisis: ‘hope for good weather’. It’s hard to…

Britain is a vetocracy

14 August 2022 4:00 pm

England is in the grip of its most widespread drought in 20 years. Water companies are implementing hosepipe bans. Half…

How Truss plans to bring the Bank of England to heel

6 August 2022 10:36 pm

Liz Truss believes the Bank of England has lost control of inflation. If chosen as the country’s next prime minister,…

Ukraine's fate may rest on a mild winter

6 August 2022 4:00 pm

Russia is once again relying on ‘General Winter’. Instead of freezing German advances on Moscow, the plan today is to…

Biden's word play can't save the United States from a recession

28 July 2022 4:37 pm

Some denials are more worrying than their absence. A company insisting that its director will be vindicated by the forensic…

There’s nothing conservative about climate change

24 July 2022 4:01 pm

The combination of ’40°C temperatures’ and ‘England’ feels about as natural a pairing as ‘English football’ and ‘winning’; God simply…