Where does Labour think that wealth comes from?
Keir Starmer has to face the reality of wealth creation
In defence of Blimp
Was the reactionary caricature, immortalised by Powell and Pressburger, actually a moral visionary?
The government should stop this social experiment on children
Don’t throw children to the activist wolves as guinea pigs
December letters
Stuffed ballot boxes, meanced Baltic countries and Tory tearaways who came good
A Boris for all seasons
I will not tell you what was in the WhatsApps. I will not tell you why I will not
Braverman’s broadside
Does Suella have a plan to save the Conservatives?
“Muslim gangsters” and secular ironies
Finding religion does not always mean being reformed, and secularisation does not always mean being enlightened
Women’s cycling should be for women
Don’t follow the pack on “inclusivity” in sports
Britain needs more babies
Immigration cannot fix our economic or demographic ailments
Jordan Peterson and the condescension of Times columnists
20,000 people paying to watch a philosophy lecture is cause for celebration not scorn
AI will not satisfy
Human desires tend to be rooted in the human
The hubris of humanists
There is no case for a broader ban on conversion therapy
Ubuntu and the path to progress
South Africa cannot continue down the road towards conflict
Burning effigies for the Man
The Wicker Man is an ironic masterpiece that exposes the paradox of paganism
Planning to fail
Britain’s population is rapidly growing but the authorities seem implacably opposed to building new houses
How to deface a national treasure
Once lauded as one of the most charming historic cities in England, Cambridge is being ruined by architectural monstrosities and ill-thought-out traffic schemes
Whitehall in the thick of it
The Civil Service’s utter determination not to do anything ministers ask of it makes the Government’s work tricky
Sweden’s failed liberal project
Why does a country once regarded as a model of moderation and progressiveness now have the highest level of gun violence in Europe?
Here we go again
The striking similarities between the tired, unoriginal politics of our age and those of the turbulent 1970s
Happy to be a heretic
Difference is not betrayal and opinions are not violence
On international law
International law is often far less clear than it might sound
Saving Gaza with a Queer intifada
Saving the world with slam poetry
Silent night
The agony of global Christianity goes unheard in the West
Restoring the numinous
The products of deeply felt faith and painfully acquired skills
One of these books is worth reading …
Their rhetoric is unhinged, yet still they preen
The Plot thins
Everything Dorries encounters proves how right she is
A.S. Byatt and the follies of magical progressivism
The late novelist understood the dangers of ego-centred delusions
Taking on ISIS and Eichmann
Covering a French spy thriller, a documentary on Eichmann and a British government drama
When Irish eyes aren’t smiling
Irish Gothic and Noel Coward romance on the stage, and remembering actress Hayden Gywnne
Bruckner: Anton … and on
Bruckner and the German soul
Napoleon sold short
On Ridley Scott’s Napoleon and the challenge of biopics
Being boring
Why boring clothes are back
Eat on the wild side
A lamentation on the bland American diet
Thanks, but no thanks
Thanks giving in Highgate
Swiss cheese
Milly Ffyne shares an excellent but dispiriting fondue in the alpine haunt of the international jet set
