Has Kemi Badenoch engineered a political disaster?
Barring a late Christmas miracle, her allegations against Reform UK seem to have backfired
Reasons to be cheerful
A pessimist tries to summon up Christmas cheer
British politicians are turning me into a libertarian
Their incompetence and presumptuousness is the best advert individualists have
Twitter monetisation was a mistake
It has diminished rather than enhanced creativity
Badenoch’s “muscular liberalism” is a non-starter
The Conservative leader sounds hopelessly out of touch
Ageing gracelessly?
A new book on care is filled with empirical insights but short on rhetorical power
Patostreamers and the decline of public life
A depressing new trend reflects the impoverished state of social existence
Will Starmer’s immigration gambit backfire?
The prime minister might have opened a box that he cannot close
In a manor of shrieking
One haunted house has an infamy above all others: McKamey Manor, in the USA
Join the escalation?
That world war may not erupt imminently is no excuse for being complacent
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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
What’s wrong with our newspapers
Important news is being drowned in the tawdry and the trivial
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
What Louis Theroux ignores
Pea-brained influencers make for an easier target than Islamic misogyny
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Jams, jellies and EU insanity
From toast to tungsten, the EU is an enemy of innovation
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Progressivism and the police
The Diversity, Equality and Inclusion agenda promised a fairer form of policing, but has delivered a weaker one
“Fauxcest” is not a free speech issue
The government should ban this dangerous and disgusting genre
The slow vibe shift
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight
Botox, bodies and bogus feminism
What Planned Parenthood’s turn to Botox tells us about feminism today