Sam Bidwell

Kemi Badenoch is leading her party in the right direction on migration

7 February 2025 3:03 am

Since becoming Conservative leader in November, Kemi Badenoch has taken a restrained approach to saying what she’d do if she…

Why don’t we know how many people are in Britain?

1 February 2025 9:00 am

How many people live in Britain? You would think there would be a straightforward answer, but it eludes some of…

The problem with outdated Commonwealth voting rights

4 July 2024 9:16 pm

It’s time to decolonise Britain. And no, I’m not talking about tearing down statues of Victorian imperialists, or running roughshod over the school…

Young people are right to resent national service

26 May 2024 11:59 pm

Young Britons like me have already done our fair share of national service. For two gruelling years, we sacrificed the…

Why the Ashes is still magic

5 August 2023 4:30 am

Does it ever feel like sport has lost its magic? Smothered beneath endless commentary about political implications and social responsibility,…

Australia, not Britain, leads the Commonwealth

17 April 2023 4:00 am

Britain has a long and storied tradition of palming unwanted things off to Australia. Aside the obvious example, the Territory of…