Charlie Peters
Charlie Peters is a writer and broadcaster from London with a focus on politics, security and culture. He tweets at @CDP1882
Did Newton microaggress?
The government should stop supporting the EDI industry
Private schools are a waste of money
Both Left and Right overstate their effect on educational ability and achievements in later life
Compulsory voting — the solution to our gerontocratic crisis?
Young people have been written out of British politics: it’s time to let them back in
Dead men wave no flags
UK must not allow volunteers to fight in Ukraine
The charity-industrial complex strikes again
Why is the government paying for the privilege of being prosecuted by lefty lobbyists?
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Why violence is political
Attempts to de-politicise the murder of Anne Widdecombe will fail
RIP New Labour?
Keir Starmer’s failure should mark a decisive break with a failed consensus
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Critical briefing: EU-Taliban talks
As European governments harden their approach to migration, Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of negotiating directly with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
