The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
How Donald Trump betrayed himself
President Trump has forgotten what made him successful in the first place
Kemi Badenoch was right about the chaos in Clapham
Rioting as entertainment is a First World phenomenon
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
Why Ed Miliband can’t change course
He would have to abandon his self-appointed role as an agent of progress
The problem of midwit misinformation
Iran, insurance and how smart people lose sight of the truth
Stop bullying British expats
Opportunistic attacks on expatriates in Dubai are ignorant and obnoxious
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
How procedure is enabling petty criminals
We should support workers who confront criminals
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
The right has a conspiracy problem
Conspiracies exist — but the temptation to use them as an all-purpose explanation is wrongheaded
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
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall