The British right will not be socially conservative
Like it or loathe it, Brits are liberal
Don’t blame smartphones for everything
It is a mistake to turn real problems into moral panics
No thanks, America
Americans should stop insulting Europe — but Europe should stop allowing itself to be insulted
It is not unpatriotic to question war
Old smears are being resurrected to silence dissent
Who is to blame for Badenoch?
Her failure should have been foreseen
Are young women being radicalised?
The right should fear the ideological gap between young men and young women
An imposter at ARC
It is much easier to talk about civilisation than to be civilised
The commentator’s privilege
George Monbiot could use a little more self-reflection
Of course young people think badly about Britain
They have been given no reason to think otherwise
Don’t cancel Andrew Gywnne
Even Labour ministers should not be fired for private jokes
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James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
How Donald Trump betrayed himself
President Trump has forgotten what made him successful in the first place
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech