Why the establishment hates X
It can be used to spread misinformation and abuse, yes, but it can also expose inconvenient facts
When violence is its own reward
How do we deal with people who kill for the sake of killing?
Ice and fire
Ben Stokes has had a truly exceptional career
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
The EU is changing on immigration
A firmer stance is being taken — but will it be enough?
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy