BY ALEX STORY A few days ago, after two years of negotiation, the United Kingdom reached an agreement to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). As the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, the Washington based think tank writes, with a combined GDP of close to $13.5 trillion, the partnership is “already one of the world’s largest free trade agreements” in … Continue reading Your Cake and Eating It
BY EFFIE DEANS The problem with Scottish Conservatism is structural rather than personal. Ruth Davidson is better suited to leadership than either Douglas Ross or Jackson Carlaw. But this is because she is a first rate politician. It is not because her ideas are any different from theirs. They all more or less agree about everything and the everything they agree upon is mistaken. That … Continue reading End Conservative Declinism
BY MARK HOOK Three generations of my family voted for you. Without thinking. That was the thing to do. In our area in the North East there was only coal. That meant we voted red for working people. When Blair came to power he called himself a socialist, but we didn’t really know what that meant, just that Labour looked out for the little guy … Continue reading Epitaph for Labour
BY DANIEL KAWCZYNSKI MP One of the most important arguments that emerged during the 2016 referendum campaign was that a vote to leave the European Union was not a vote to leave Europe. Whilst the United Kingdom is stepping out of the ever-expanding regulatory empire of Brussels, we are not turning our back on our responsibilities to our friends on the continent. The fortunes of Britain … Continue reading Britain’s Great V4 Opportunity
