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So you're a Tory backbench MP and you chose your career path not for the money (well not unless you're, say, Tim Yeo) but for the cause. You believe in free markets, personal responsibility, rewards for hard work, lower taxes,...

New research suggests that fewer people with right wing views will purchase light bulbs that are labeled as "pro-environment" due to the politicized nature of the carbon debate in the United States...

"So you want Ed Miliband to win the next election, do you?" This is the argument you often hear being advanced by diehard Tories – Toby Young, among them, it would seem – to explain why however much Ukip may make...

There’s a story making the rounds on websites, some newspapers, and wire services like UPI saying that the EU has  banned any statement (such as on bottled water) that “regular consumption of significant amounts...

Guest post by Alec Rawls “It took the 21 scientists on the panel three years of analysis into the link between water and dehydration to come to their extraordinary conclusion,” reports the UK Express...

In the latest Spectator I have written an open letter to my old university mate David Cameron. Here is a companion piece: the letter I’d like to see him write to the nation, having at last recognised the gravity of...

Is Adele the bravest, craziest, most downright wonderful star in the history of pop? After what she has just told Q magazine on the subject of tax, I think she might well be...

In response to my criticism of conservative Members of Congress for supporting H. R. 1380, which I have nicknamed the T. Boone Pickens Earmark Bill, some conservatives (in which broad category I include libertarians and advocates...

A few weeks ago Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) called for a new energy solution. A solution that came in the form of 100 new nuclear power plants. That vision has not left the republicans’ eyes. And on Tuesday, Senator...

Am I the only one who noticed that Sarah Palin has pulled a huge switchover when it comes to her take on energy policy? Because it’s dramatic, and may presage the switch that I have been hoping for for a while: the...