Philip Johnston
Philip Johnston
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The Telegraph
The Tories refuse to admit that mass migration is driving the housing crisis

The Government’s belated new plans are all very well, but will hardly make a dent, given population pressures

Britain is abandoning hard work in favour of welfarism and idleness

It’s as if we now live in two countries, with millions thinking there is no stigma attached to not working

Britain is facing a constitutional crisis that could end Sunak’s premiership

The row over the Rwanda policy has turned political attitudes to the House of Lords on their head

Ministers blundered by turning a new Holocaust memorial into a controversy

How have we got to a point where even survivors of the death camps oppose the ill-considered plans?

Tory splits could turn a 1997-style defeat into a total electoral wipeout

There’s a common factor behind big past losses: divided parties do worse than they would otherwise

The Post Office Horizon scandal has shattered faith in British justice

One of the most shocking facets of this affair is how long it has taken for those wronged to receive redress

Britain has become a safe haven for terrorists and foreign criminals

Human rights law stops us from protecting national security, and politicians are doing nothing about it

Keir Starmer plans to play the class card, just as Wilson did 60 years ago

After 13 years of Tory rule, the 1964 election gave Labour a narrow win. Is history about to repeat?

The NHS will face a permanent winter unless Labour confronts its original sin

The root cause of its ills is that it is a nationalised system funded almost entirely out of taxation

The Covid Inquiry has already made up its mind on who to blame: Boris

The guilt for the disaster of lockdown is collective. Too few asked whether we got the balance right

The common sense majority is being cowed into silence by activist zealots

Small groups are being allowed to impose their views on green policy and identity politics on all of us

Reckless public spending is pushing the country towards the debt abyss

It’s an illusion Jeremy Hunt has money to burn. Our grandchildren will pay the price for this profligacy

‘Thatcher should be ashamed’ – an insider’s tale of the last Tory catastrophe

Norman Fowler’s account of 17 years in office tends to the polite and generous, but evidently he prefers John Major to the Iron Lady

It’s a testament to British freedom that banning a march is no easy decision

We cherish free expression but tolerance towards the intolerant could prove to be the end of our way of life

Sunak’s Bletchley Park summit won’t put the AI genie back in the bottle

Our leaders have been ultra-cautious in trivial areas, yet turned a blind eye to this looming threat

Extremists are exploiting Britain’s tolerance to plot our destruction

We have allowed the UK to become a haven for radical activists and dissidents who would do us harm

The Tories are about to rediscover the cost of being seen as soft on crime

Ministers are only raising the downsides of short sentences because they’ve not built enough prisons

A spectre haunts the Labour Party, the spectre of a 1992-style disaster

There’s a reason Starmer talks in hackneyed clichés: he is terrified of giving the Tories any ammunition

We’ve blown Mrs Thatcher’s legacy. Now Rishi must confront the truth

Who can blame the public for being cynical when, for decades, empty promises have defined our politics?

Nobody is held accountable for failure in Britain’s broken public sector

Honourable resignations appear to be a thing of the past. Just look at Northern Ireland’s chief constable

The Bibby Stockholm is a symbol of Britain’s failed migration policy

The Government's plan to send migrants to Rwanda looks dead. But if not there, then where will they go?

I’ve been fined for driving on a 20mph road. The criminal justice system is upside down

The whole criminal justice system is upside down. It would be dangerous if we lost trust in it entirely

A nuclear war could wipe out all of humanity, and nobody seems to care

People prefer to fret about the threat from climate change, even though we can adapt

The scandalous Stonehenge tunnel is a very British waste of taxpayer money

Why do public projects in the UK always cost so much more than similar schemes in other nations?

Our pensions are now piggybanks for the Chancellor’s pet projects

Governments are fond of tinkering with retirement plans, but this usually ended in economic tears

Britain is heading for drought - and it is an entirely man-made disaster

A failure to prepare for the consequences of climate change leaves the country in a precarious situation