By: Eliot Wilson

Eliot Wilson is a writer, commentator and contributing editor at Defence On The Brink. He was formerly a clerk in the House of Commons and writes regularly on politics, defence and international security, and Parliament and the constitution, including for The Spectator, The Hill, The i Paper and CapX

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The first Europe referendum proved that the people don’t always know better than politicians

June 5, 2025

50 years ago today, the British public voted decisively to stay in the European Economic Community. The winning side in a referendum always think they have settled the question, but the 1975 vote proves how wrong they are, says Eliot Wilson Fifty years ago today, on Thursday 5 June 1975, British voters did something unheard [...]
Repeat after me: Working from home is NOT an ideology

June 2, 2025

When work from home becomes a question of culture, not practicality, we have completely lost the point, writes Eliot Wilson.
On this day: May 26 1896 — the first Dow Jones Industrial Average is published

May 26, 2025

Charles Dow was a financial journalist with a rare gift. A high school dropout from rural Connecticut, he was able to explain the arcana of investment, stocks and bonds in clear, straightforward terms. In 1882, he and two other journalists, Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser, founded Dow Jones & Company Inc. in a basement at [...]
Was Rayner’s leaked memo an early play for party leader?

May 26, 2025

Rayner's 'leaked' memo was a reminder that she is cut from different stuff than our iron Chancellor, but was it strategic, asks Eliot Wilson.
The defence industry shouldn’t expect a gold rush

May 19, 2025

Despite all their talk, Labour's promises won't mean a gold rush for the defence industry, writes Eliot Wilson.
US-UK deal is free trade in name only

May 8, 2025

The newly announced UK-US trade agreement under Trump is a modest, tactical rollback of recent protectionist measures rather than a true free trade deal, aimed more at political optics than economic transformation, says Eliot Wilson Donald Trump advertised last week’s trade agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom as “full and comprehensive”, a [...]
Amazon row proves Trump’s America is an unreliable partner for business

May 5, 2025

Trump’s overreaction to an unconfirmed story about Amazon including the cost of tariffs on its price labels businesses must now navigate a landscape where loyalty to the President matters more than logic, says Eliot Wilson It started with Punchbowl News. On Tuesday last week, as Donald Trump was marking 100 days in office, the Capitol [...]
Trump’s Gilded Age American dream shows he is no historian

April 28, 2025

You can’t recreate the past in a global economy, yet Trump's Gilded Age fantasy will not abate, writes Eliot Wilson.
The mixed legacy of Pope Francis, the Slum Bishop

April 21, 2025

Catholics looked to the late Pope Francis to address enormous questions about the Church, and he wrestled with many of them, but at his death it seems that he provided definitive answers to very few, says Eliot Wilson Pope Francis, who died on Easter Monday aged 88, led the Catholic Church for 12 years. A [...]
After British Steel, what else will the government nab for national security?

April 21, 2025

The potential nationalisation of British Steel in the name of 'national security' must make us ask what the government will justify next, writes Eliot Wilson.

Badenoch says triple lock pension is ‘right policy’ as new Tory blueprint announced

The BBC’s bulletin cuts show how crowded sports broadcasting has become

Is Soho nightlife really dead? We went partying to find out

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