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
In defence of inequalities
Some of them, at least
The Conservatives have endangered Britain
Photo ops cannot hide a decade of failure
Rediscovering Martin Amis
He made reading, and writing, fun
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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
Supernatural delight
Religion cannot be reduced to dry abstractions
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war