Neil O'Brien
Neil O'Brien is Member of Parliament for Harborough. He writes at his personal site and tweets at @neildotobrien
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
The great immigration data disaster
Officials are deleting the data we need for a more sensible debate
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Recreational rioting
Is your right an existential threat to the nation or just blowing off steam? It depends on which flag you’re waving
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one