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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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
The great creative course illusion
How universities mistook access to courses for access to creative life
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
