The sad side of “smokefree”
Let’s not pretend that there are no benefits to smoking
The fantasy politics of pragmatism
Janan Ganesh is wrong about radical politics
The Tories are worse than weak
The Conservatives cannot blame powerlessness for their failures
Who hears the persecuted church?
Our leaders should take a firm stance on anti-Christian violence
What are the police good for?
British cops have to focus on actual crimes
Honouring Amber
We must remember victims of evil
In praise of being undiplomatic
The Falklands should always be the Falklands
Against national civic service
Citizens should not have to bail out the government
The smugness of pseudo-centrism
Betware of those who dress their preferences up as simple realism
Demystifying the cyber-hackers
What is being kept safe, and how, and from whom, are not just engineering questions
Lebrecht’s Album of the Year
Not just a great record but an essential one
The half-forgotten promise of the Jubilee Line
The London Underground line points the way towards a better future
Fabian fry-up
After last night’s disco, a very hungover conference is ready for a hearty plate of social democracy
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Unionism has to wise up
In Northern Ireland, inaction is decline
We must resurrect the symphony
Or the orchestra will die with it
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
Something has gone very wrong with “human rights”
When the “rights” of foreign sex criminals are being prioritised above the safety of Britons, we need change
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
