The first of three articles this week as our project continues over the summer and autumn.
The measure is just the tip of the British state’s anti-family iceberg. But as with so many of our other problems, it commands strong (if short-sighted) public support.
Although politicians like to elide them, long-term thinking and putting difficult things off until tomorrow are not the same thing.
The nineteenth article in a new series on ConHome about how government might be made smaller, taxpayers better off and and society stronger – through strong families, better schools and good jobs.
The sixteenth article in a new series on ConHome about how government might be made smaller, taxpayers better off and and society stronger – through strong families, better schools and good jobs.
Activists who want free termination up to birth have allowed what was meant to be an emergency measure during Covid to become a dangerous new normal.
The fifth article in a new series on ConHome about how government might be made smaller, taxpayers better off and and society stronger – through strong families, better schools and good jobs.
It represents a power-grab by town hall bureaucrats, an attack on families’ common-law rights, and an unworkable extension of the database state.
Its most honest advocates concede it would effectively abolish the upper limit for terminating a pregnancy; only one per cent of women polled support this stance.
How can a relative handful of active MPs have sparked so much concern amongst their long-dominant liberal colleagues?
What does conservatism look like in a future where rising burdens on the State make low-tax politics impossible to deliver?
Sharp cliff-edges mean that the partners of high earners could find it very difficult to justify the expense of returning to employment.
Social glorification of its allegedly liberating consequences has too long stifled debate about its impacts – even as it becomes ever easier to get.
We are being forced to pay someone else to do the job we long to do, and mask over the anguish of separation at the nursery door
The twentieth article in a new series on ConHome about how government might be made smaller, taxpayers better off and and society stronger – through strong families, better schools and good jobs.