Jobs are vital to welfare reform. Unemployment has been medicalised, leaving too many without aspiration or hope. Sunday, 16 March, 2025 It’s hard to get a car moving with the handbrake on. Jobs are vital to welfare reform. Unemployment has been medicalised, leaving too many without aspiration or hope. To govern is to choose and against the backdrop of an increasingly unsafe world, the need to invest significantly more in defence and a flatlining economy, further reform of welfare is a necessity. When I resigned from Cameron’s... Articles
If Ukraine goes down, Taiwan will be next. 24th February 2025 By appearing weak and divided, the West is sending a worrying message to its adversaries. Megaphone “diplomacy”, that feature of the Cold War, has re-surfaced... Articles
Trump’s laudable desire for peace may make him the Neville Chamberlain of our era 14th February 2025 The speed with which the Trump administration has hit the ground and heaved executive orders and ultimatums at domestic targets and foreign states has been... Articles
Clueless Labour will turn Britain into a Chinese colony. 13th February 2025 The Cabinet’s lack of real world experience has left them vulnerable to Xi’s manipulation. As the Chinese Foreign Secretary Wang Yi arrives in the UK, following... Articles
This conflict is the shop window for the West's resolve. If we buckle, other dictators will unleash their war machines 2nd February 2025 A week ago I was in Ukraine, observing a programme of work to help soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. One ex-soldier explained to me that... Articles
US weakness on Ukraine will only embolden China 19th January 2025 Dictators do not speak the language of appeasement. The West must not repeat mistakes of the past. When Donald Trump takes office, his greatest challenge will... Articles
Why Putin and Iran are the two huge losers in Syria - but UK must watch out too 9th December 2024 The speed of the takeover has taken everyone by surprise. Most thought that the Syrian forces, albeit without the scale of support once available to them from... Articles
It’s time to finally fix the botched Northern Ireland Brexit situation. Here’s how 5th December 2024 The Irish Sea border is a ball and chain round our ankles in other trade deals around the world. On Friday, Parliament will get a chance to finally resolve the... Articles
Middle-class drug users are fuelling the mayhem 1st December 2024 My good friend Noreen Oliver MBE, who died recently, was the founder of the drug charity the BAC O'Connor Centre, helping addicts through rehabilitation to... Articles
Starmer’s Britain won’t be China’s peer, it’ll be Xi’s puppet 19th November 2024 Britain will regret getting into bed with the most brutal and unreliable of regimes. The Prime Minister’s face-to-face meeting with President Xi Jinping at the... Articles
