Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
Red tape and black markets
Prohibition is a criminal’s best friend
Windy Whitty
Chris Whitty is wrong about so-called “fat jabs”
The gateway myth
Does one risky lifestyle choice lead to another or are some people just different?
Drug yourself happy?
The case for microdosing ourselves into being merry
Against the vape ban
The case against vapes is still nothing but hot air
How “smoke-free” went up in smoke
The campaign against vaping has been miserably counter-productive
The problem with protectionism
Choice is the foundation of a successful economy
Disengaging from the stakeholders
Prohibitionists seem not to like active citizens who disagree with them
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The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold