Alexander Baker is a senior researcher at the Prosperity Institute.
The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has pledged £30 million to fund a youth club in every London borough. This latest round of goodwill no doubt came about thanks to last week’s youth-driven public disorder, most visible in Clapham but replicated elsewhere across the country. These events were social media inspired ‘link ups’ with participants
A year ago today, the Prime Minister gave a speech on the ‘fundamental reform of the British state’. ‘We don’t want a bigger state, or an intrusive state, an ever-expanding state,’ he declared. ‘We were elected to take on blockers and deliver change, and that is what we’ll do.’ On this momentous anniversary, let us
‘Utter and complete poppycock’: that was Viscount Montgomery of Alamein’s verdict on an US proposal in the 1960s for a multilateral nuclear force crewed by international Nato personnel. Famed for defeating the Nazis in North Africa, Monty didn’t mince his words about that plan. There’s little doubt what he’d make of the quiet resurgence of
The Nato meeting of defence ministers in Brussels today will give its participants an opportunity to discuss the issues facing the alliance in perhaps a more cordial, if frank, manner before the inevitably more theatrical leaders’ summit in The Hague at the end of the month. Much of the focus will be on proposed defence
It’s back. The government is once again attempting to give the police powers to search homes without a warrant. Buried within the mammoth Crime and Policing Bill that is currently making its way through parliament are a couple of clauses that give the police warrantless powers of entry to search and seize stolen goods. Ministers
Your phone has been stolen. In the bustle of the crowd there’s no way of telling who took it and how far away it is by now. Luckily, you’re with a friend and can use any number of tracking apps to quickly pinpoint the exact location of the stolen phone. You bound over to the
