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
All in the family?
The right is in danger of missing the point about the changing nature of British democracy
Save the Palace of Westminster!
The refusal of the public procurement system to behave reasonably is not an excuse to destroy Parliament
“15-minute cities” is not a policy
Our political establishment is consumed by tedious exercises in status-signalling
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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
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
An ode to the examination
The end of in-person examinations would be the end of rational assessment
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
Sad Scottish schadenfreude
For too many nationalists, England losing is mistaken for Scotland winning
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)