Allister Heath

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.

Is it already too late to save Britain? Is the rot too deep, the decline too advanced, our body-politic too debilitated to course-correct, or does a sliver of hope remain that we might, one day, regain some of our greatness?

In today's episode of The Daily T, Camilla Tominey and Tim Stanley speak to Katherine Birbalsingh – dubbed Britain's strictest headteacher for her

I’m all for rolling the dice, for high-risk, high-payoff gambits, for turning crises into opportunities, but Nigel Farage has made a rare miscalculation in calling a by-election in Clacton. He seems to have allowed his emotions, some justified, others less so, to get the better of him, hasn’t handled the stories about his party’s affairs well, has reverted to his comfort zone and has been outmanoeuvred by his enemies.

Was that it, then, the great reveal, the sum total of Andy Burnham’s plan for a more hopeful Britain?

Don’t be fooled by the strange case of Andy Burnham, a Jekyll-and-Hyde politician par excellence. There are two contradictory sides to his personality: one reassuringly conventional, affable rather th...

Climate change is real, but Britain can do almost nothing about it. The war against global warming has been lost, with only grievous collateral damage to show for it. We have crippled British industry, hammered consumers and pushed the grid to the brink of blackouts, all with no discernible impact on global emissions and the climate.

It’s time to call out Rupert Lowe, the leader of Restore, a deluded egotist who is toxifying British politics, fanning the fires of racial and religious strife and risks handing permanent power to Andy Burnham’s Leftist revolutionaries.

If internal warfare and social media point-scoring keep distracting conservative parties from existential threats, the far-Left will triumph

Brace, brace for impact: a financial tsunami is heading for Britain, threatening to sweep away Andy Burnham’s premiership before it even gets started. If our fair-weather PM isn’t careful, the first Budget he is preparing with John Healey could well be their last: yes, the crisis is that grave.