Keir Starmer was right to cut the winter fuel allowance
His U-turn shows pure political cowardice
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
Defending an outdoor smoke
There is no rational argument for prohibition
In defence of the right to addictions
Paternalists should stop masquerading as defenders of liberty
Immigration restrictionists need more honest arguments
Our debates are side-stepping fundamental questions of morality
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
We need a loud revival
The dream of a “quiet revival” always misunderstood the problem faced by British Christians
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option