Special interests should pay their own way
The Brussels blob needs more accountability
Turning virtue into vice
Be wary of excitable claims about the cost of eating healthily
The zombie policies of public health
Whatever the evidence, public health officials will never admit to being wrong
The return of prohibition
In the USA, as in Britain, “public health” is coming for alcohol
The WASPI women should blame themselves
No injustice has been done to them
Why won’t Chris Whitty go away?
He lingers on — a slap-headed Rasputin whispering terrible ideas into the ears of our leaders
Food for thoughtlessness
The march of the public health puritans continues
Taking the liberal mask off prohibition
The case for the Tobacco and Vapes Bill is morally and economically unsound
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated
Does vaping do more harm than good?
It seems improbable
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Why the establishment hates X
It can be used to spread misinformation and abuse, yes, but it can also expose inconvenient facts
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all