Elliot Burns is a freelance writer for The Commentator and others. He is also the Director of Political Policy at The Institute for Policy Design
The British Right and the Road to Serfdom
Britain needs a Tea Party, but not one that hits out against minorities. The risk is that Britain is heading down the Road to Serfdom, so we had better get this right, and get it right soon
- 11 March 2014
Why Hillary must be stopped in 2016
The prospect of Hillary Clinton is one that should do more than anything to unite the Republicans: it is absolutely vital for the prospects of America that she never becomes President. She is a careerist of the worst kind
- 25 February 2014
What is the left's obsession with banning things?
The Left is now authoritarian through and through. If Leftists don't like things, they believe they have a right to ban them. What's worrying is that they're getting their way
- 10 February 2014
Small government will always triumph over statism
Government rewards failure. It is the free market that leads to development for all humanity. If you want progress, cut government. If we fail to heed this message, the future could be very bleak
- 5 February 2014
Why end of communism didn’t make capitalism popular
The Left has successfully blamed market economics for policy failings of their own. The longer it is unfashionable to be a laissez-faire capitalist, the more people will suffer
- 23 January 2014
British Right's main problem is our role in the world
Foreign interventionism is out of fashion. But what becomes of the British Right if it emulates the politically correct relativism of the Left and does exactly what Reagan and Thatcher refused to do: bow down to or ignore tyranny?
- 5 January 2014
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