Anthony O’Hear
Anthony O’Hear was a Director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy and editor of Philosophy for 25 years
Philosopher par excellence
Beyond the breaking glass of his public interventions, Sir Roger Scruton was a peerless intellectual
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Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
