Much of the UK’s land area – 71% – is devoted to agriculture overseen by farmers, land owners, and land managers. The rules and arrangements which govern those groups, therefore, can have a profound impact on the country’s natural environment. Currently, rural activity and natural environment policies are funded and administered disparately by both the EU and the UK Government, across a number of different schemes. But by leaving the EU, and by extension the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the…

I am what you would call an unnatural conservative. My grandparents moved to the U.K in the sixties and spent their entire lives involved in Labour politics. Indeed, most of my family to this day are staunch Labour supporters. I grew up in a part of the country that was extremely safe Labour territory. My dad would often joke that the red rosette would win, even if it were to be placed on a baboon. I even spent a large…

Over the last several months, fixed odds betting terminals (FOBTs), electronic gambling machines which lurk in betting shops, have been the subject of deep opprobrium, from the puritan left to Guido Fawkes. They are addictive and harmful, goes the charge, and finally the government has proposed a set of restrictions on them. Yet from a liberal perspective, driven by the harm principle (Mill’s dictum that people’s actions should be restricted only when they harm other individuals), it is not obvious…

Today’s most fundamental injustice is the lottery of birth. Conservatives should reject the socialist anathema of outcome inequalities; and instead make and prove the argument that capitalism can be a catalyst for, rather than a barrier against, closing this diversion between potential and prospects. Injustice found in institutions designed to achieve justice surely burns most. Much on the agenda recently have been worrying disparities, regarding, for example, the disproportionately high BAME prison population. If adjusted for arrests, however, it is…