The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
The slow death of public spaces
Pointless regulations are sucking joy from British life
The 15-minute bait and switch
15-minute cities mean restricted freedom and a town hall traffic-fine bonanza
Life as an accidental émigré
The coronavirus pandemic has birthed a new historically-specific group: the lockdown refugees
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
An irreversible step
If Britain embraces euthanasia for the terminally ill, it won’t end there
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
Peston’s inbox
Kemi wants a correction, and Keir could appear on celebrity TV
Getting the measure of the Russian bear
A defensive concern under the right conditions can morph into a warrant for brutal expansionism
The Candy Man can
The people’s party: now bankrolled by one of the country’s richest property developers
Developing nations will be forced to choose
Sitting on the fence between China and the USA is unsustainable
The Bard at Christmas
It is impossible to appreciate Shakespeare without acknowledging his Christian foundations
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
AI is a terrible poet
It has no sense for true meaning and beauty in language
