"To keep entire communities in enforced idleness is to exclude them from full participation in humanity"

‘It’s appalling that 28 per cent of us live off the state…Like my father, without work I would be bereft’

The “quiet man” has nerves of steel, and his welfare reform may make the Conservatives the natural party of government again

On Evil by Terry Eagleton

Modern secular millennarians are embracing illiberal ideologies — and once again the Jews are in the firing line

‘Empirical evidence shows that whereas Friedman knew what he was talking about, Keynes did not’

"Cuba is decaying at a scandalous pace, physically and morally. The social capital of civil values and mutual trust has evaporated and hatred is taking hold"

The Shadow Universities and Skills Secretary David Willetts discusses the legacy of the post-war generation with the senior Labour MP Frank Field and Daniel Johnson, the Editor of Standpoint

‘The idea that diligent citizens have been putting away money for their retirement with National Insurance contributions is a myth’

The inventor of Red Toryism — said to have the ear of David Cameron — is totally confused about the welfare state and the markets