Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Critical briefing: Tisza
What you need to know about the new Hungarian establishment
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety
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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
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
From Newton to newts
Putting badgers on the banknotes may avoid controversy, but it also avoids saying anything meaningful about Britain at all
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth