Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
Suicide of an author’s credibility
Matt Goodwin has done the causes that he represents no favours with his new book
The right has a conspiracy problem
Conspiracies exist — but the temptation to use them as an all-purpose explanation is wrongheaded
Self’s the man
Will Self can be absurd and obnoxious — but also highly entertaining and insightful
Reform is making a mistake on Iran
The party is throwing its weight behind an unpopular and perilous cause
Britain is not a nation of animal lovers
British moralising about animal welfare can be hypocritical
Americans are wrong about the Baftas controversy
Blaming John Davidson for his disability is foolish and offensive
The Trump Doctrine seems incoherent
Can broad and lasting results be achieved with narrow and swift interventions?
Valdo Calocane should not have been free to kill
British institutions failed his victims time and again
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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
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
The welfare state of things
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the numbers behind Britain’s welfare state
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines