Labour Wins U.K. Elections as Conservatives Collapse and Third Parties Surge
Keir Starmer’s Labour secures a sweeping victory, taking the helm from Rishi Sunak.
Keir Starmer’s Labour secures a sweeping victory, taking the helm from Rishi Sunak.
Spiked's leading polemicist defends J.K. Rowling, Brexit, and Enlightenment values of free speech and pluralism.
Are the plausible alternatives to continental governance any better?
Newspapers deserve a great deal of credit for the expansion of freedom over the past 200 years. But the media have lost credibility.
Cicada season reminds us that insects are a great food source for humans.
So far, Britain has signed 63 new trade deals, including with the E.U.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson embraces the nanny state after recovering from COVID-19.
Brits will have only themselves to blame if they don't embrace food freedom.
"Say what you will about ISIS but at least they're not Islamophobic." Journalist Andrew Doyle has created the ultimate parody account.
Plus: Britain's last day in the European Union, political ads at the Super Bowl, John Delaney drops out of the presidential race, and more...
Plus: Brexit is finally (for real!) going to happen, Bernie Sanders surges in the polls, and a peaceful Virginia gun rights rally was apparently violent all along
A range of libertarian-world approaches to the impending trial of Donald Trump
Plus: "Vaping policy" consumes the White House, the porn wars portend something bigger, the DHS wants subpoena power, libertarians in space, a Milk Freedom Act, and more...
The Brexit architect explains what the media got wrong about Brexit, the rise of "Bannonism and Bernie-ism," and what went wrong in Venezuela.
Roughly five times as many people live under populist governments now compared to 10 years ago.
One of Brexit's architects says leaving the EU is a victory for free trade and decentralization and warns that a Corbyn victory will destroy the U.K.'s future.
In his new manifesto The Three Dimensions of Freedom, the veteran punk rocker calls out libertarians for focusing solely on economic freedom. Is his case worth buying?
Britons probably won't starve if the U.K. ever manages to leave the E.U.
They can and they should, but it won’t be easy.
Plus: a crackdown on "hot wife" billboards, a ban on cat declawing, and more...
Us vs. Them author Ian Bremmer says that worldwide populism is a response from people who are being left behind economically.
Plus: Brexit triumphs in European Parliament elections and Princeton students want an Office of Intersectional Violence Investigations.
Borders offer a wonderful opportunity to evade high taxes and restrictive rules.
Leavers aren't the sinister, racist, champagne wasters they're made out to be.
Plus: Google CEO to get grilled today on bias and tobacco farmers are finding new profits in hemp.
If referenda are a legitimate mechanism for making political decisions, then it is also legitimate for them to be overruled by new referenda. Those who live by the referendum sword risk dying by it.
Let them eat chlorine-washed chicken.
Let them eat chlorine-washed chicken.
The two sides have until March 2019 to come up with a withdrawal agreement.
Globalization and its benefits are under threat from globalists and populists like Farage.
Brexit is creating the opportunity for a lot of progress in the United Kingdom.
Populism is a result of government's separation from its citizens over decades.
Donald Trump's pro-tariff action yesterday underlines a reality long in the making: The post-Cold War neoliberal triumphalism is dead in the West.
High court rules government must get a vote from Parliament on a law before invoking Article 50.
Trump called himself "Mr. Brexit" earlier this week.
Keep calm and accept 24/7 surveillance.
Brexit is a dangerous blow to openness and free trade.
Labor's Jeremy Corbyn faces leadership challenge
The world's best Kmele Foster-hosted libertarian podcast also discusses high-speed rail and doing mushrooms
Only Libertarian Gary Johnson supports free trade and opposes tariffs, "period."
Why did the U.S. media act like the world was ending? And that #Brexit is really about domestic American politics?
Does everything always have to be about America? Yes, pretty much, if you're an American.
It was perfectly possible for voters in the UK to vote to leave the EU to engage with the world without being pushed around by meddlesome bureaucrats.
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