Build, Baby, Build: Heathrow needs a third runway July 24, 2024 London’s lack of air capacity is an international embarrassment. A can-do Labour government should push through where the Tories failed and build a third runaway at Heathrow, says James Price As I downed a peculiar American concoction that promised to help me sleep (no, not Jack Daniel’s) for an overnight flight back to Blighty recently, [...]
How Buc-ee’s gas stations can heal America July 17, 2024 America may be deeply divided, but a country capable of generating the abundance and prosperity on display at Buc-ee’s gas stations can face up to any challenge, says James Price The image of Donald Trump resolutely holding his fist in the air moments after surviving an assassination attempt is already era-defining. As Trump said himself, [...]
The Tories must get good at opposition – and fast July 10, 2024 Conservatives in opposition must provide scrutiny, support for sensible pro-growth measures and find out what they believe in, says James Price Having failed to be a very good government, the Conservatives now have an even more difficult task. They have to dust themselves down and find a new leader to build them back up with [...]
Could Reform become the party of business? June 26, 2024 The Conservatives have damaged their reputation as the party of enterprise, leaving the field wide open for Reform to seize the free market agenda, says James Price This being a family-friendly newspaper, I will have to be judicious when quoting a certain ex-Tory Prime Minister’s response to businesses’ concerns about Brexit. “F*** business” was certainly [...]
Attacks on the Prime Minister’s patriotism have gone too far June 11, 2024 Rishi Sunak made a mistake over D-Day but it's the superficiality of so much modern political campaigning that's really letting people down
Baillie Gifford is the latest target of the ‘omnicause’ June 5, 2024 Pressuring book festivals to divest from Baillie Gifford over its tenuous links to climate change and war in the Middle East is characteristic of the woolly thinking underpinning protest culture, says James Price We are all now, sadly, used to nonsense campus trivialities migrating from universities and into the office and even the streets. What [...]
The unspoken truth about pensions May 29, 2024 Neither party is willing to face up to the fact that when it comes to state and public sector pensions, there really is no money left, says James Price General elections really ought to be a platform from which the seismic, structural challenges facing our country are debated. Governments need fresh mandates if they are [...]
The case for the defence of barristers’ wigs May 22, 2024 Barristers’ wigs are the latest front in the war on the eccentricity and traditions that make this country unique, says James Price “What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?” asks Bertie Wooster during one of his many misadventures. Jeeves, as omniscient and fundamentally right about everything as ever, replies, quite correctly: “There [...]
Memo to Sunak and Reeves: you can’t have security without prosperity May 16, 2024 Both Rachel Reeves and Rishi Sunak want to frame the next election around the question of who will make you safer, but both are missing the point
The City is a model of good local government (kind of) May 8, 2024 Local government in the UK is a mess, but the ancient system we have in the City is more accountable than most – and the whole country benefits, says James Price Mothin Ali, an accountant who also runs a gardening blog, declared his election as councillor for the Gipton and Harehills ward in Leeds a [...]
