On blasphemy and bullets
Murder is a lot worse than insulting religious beliefs
World peace and the meaning of life
What equips a podcaster to be a multi-dimensional philosopher king?
This rape gang proves that my politics are correct
Online leftists are shamelessly politicising a horrendous crime
Don’t ban political lying
There is no excuse for lies, but trying to ban them might do more harm than good
Starmer’s scapegoating is downright silly
Of course Amazon is not to blame for the Southport killings
The sinister absurdity of Westminster City Council
White people are facing discrimination at the heart of British political life
The reality of the roads
Young men should be aware of the brutal realities of gang life
The road to Hell is paved with arse-covering cowardice
Good intentions were not to blame for the failure to stop the grooming gangs
The short lives and violent deaths of Sweden’s rappers
Swedish rap is a window into a violent underworld
Stewart Lee is wrong about comedy and censorship
Despite the awfulness of much “anti-woke” comedy, opponents of political correctness have a point
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The Book of JO’B
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
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone