Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
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
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How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Restore the King James Bible
Those who are opposed, please consider, in the bowels of Christ, whether you may be mistaken
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
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Farage: I’m not worried
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Politicians can’t handle free speech
The more criticism ministers receive online, the more determined they become to regulate what everyone else can say
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The problem with the SNP’s separatist sympathies
We should not simply “move on” from the horrors of IRA terrorism
Time to scrap the smoking ban
Intolerance, not smoking, is what should be considered irrational and unpleasant