Population

The real reason birth rates are falling

21 June 2025 9:00 am

Last week the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) released its State of World Population report. According to the Guardian: ‘Millions…

Eco warriors are driving themselves to extinction

12 April 2025 9:00 am

It wasn’t that long ago when the fashionable gathering place for young couples was a meeting of the National Childbirth…

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…

My glimpse into a childless world

9 November 2024 9:00 am

If you are looking for a pointer for the future of the world, the free-diving fisherwomen on the matriarchal, shamanistic…

Liberals are not just stupid – they’re dangerous

12 October 2024 9:00 am

We held a small party to celebrate the news that the UK had seen its largest rise in population in…

The global fertility crisis is worse than you think

17 August 2024 9:00 am

For anyone tempted to try to predict humanity’s future, Paul Ehrlich’s 1968 book The Population Bomb is a cautionary tale.…

Barometer

23 September 2023 9:00 am

Within limits Do 20mph speed limits save lives? – A 2018 report by Atkins/AECOM/UCL found that 51% of motorists conformed…

The Pope is right: it is selfish to choose pets over children

8 January 2022 7:00 pm

Well, we’ve been terrifically amused and amusing at the expense of Pope Francis, who this week declared at a Vatican…

How unusual is a December general election?

2 November 2019 9:00 am

A December election How unusual is a December general election? Of the 56 elections held since 1800, 5 essentially took…

Is this the beginning of the end of liberal democracy?

21 November 2015 9:00 am

As a graduate student in the Harvard Department of Government in the late 1980s, I became slightly jaded about the…

The Conservatives should be the party of immigrants — and here’s how they can be

21 March 2015 9:00 am

For a long while, the Conservatives have been puzzled about their lack of popularity among immigrants. In theory, the Conservative…

How to fix Britain’s immigration crisis (without leaving Europe)

13 December 2014 9:00 am

The crisis is real. And we can solve it without leaving Europe

Why Britain’s economy will overtake Germany’s

5 October 2013 9:00 am

Why the UK economy will one day overtake Germany