The rise of the American-led West was supposed to be the 'end of history' as liberal democracy triumphed. But with the self-hating West stuck in a Net Zero doom loop, is the ascendancy of the autocracies now unstoppable?
Why is a Conservative Prime Minister following the lead of health authoritarian Jacinda Ardern in introducing a progressive smoking ban that will see everyone born after 2009 banned from buying cigarettes?
Richard Littlejohn has written about the appalling new Energy Bill currently being rushed through Parliament, pointing out that, among other horrors, homeowners will be liable for jail for failing to install a heat pump.
Former Green Party Deputy Leader Shahrar Ali is bringing a case against the party after being sacked for expressing his gender critical beliefs, but he needs your help to pay his legal expenses.
Fraser Hudghton of the Free Speech Union challenges Scotland's Hate Crime Act following news that from next year, 'hate crime' will encompass age-related threats or abusive language.
Welcome to Anti-Democratic Britain, where the activist elite wages a deranged war on cars, bans gas boilers and fails to prosecute crime. We are rapidly becoming a democracy in name only, warns Allister Heath.
'Red Wall Toryism' was said to be more authoritarian, more economically statist and, somehow, gruffer, than its southern cousin. But this was a mistake; the 'Red Wall' is not a foreign country.
As liberal democracies increasingly fail to deliver the promise of greater opportunity and prosperity, the young may be increasingly drawn towards authoritarianism.
Lord Sumption has written about the gradually dawning realisation that the lockdown policy was a disastrous mistake. It could be called ‘I Told You So’ – or, since some anger is justified, ‘I F***ing Told You So.’
"There is no debate," they seem to say. "You are to follow these lockdown measures and have this medication because it is obviously good for you. If you do not conform you will be severely punished."
