In praise of constitutional flexibility
It was right to amend the Supreme Court’s decision on Gerry Adams
The court of hot air
We do not need human rights law to protect human rights or to maintain the rule of law
Sunak, false equivalence and the phantom far right
There is no comparison between the threat of Islamism and the threat of the far right
Davie, Davie, give us some answers do
Why the BBC keeps obscuring the truth of sex and gender
The enigma of Englishness
The English have debated their national nature for centuries
Who edits the editor?
The bright young things of publishing want to be involved in every line of every new book
“Problematic” art
This kind of adolescent tripe passes these days for thought
Teaching leftists about tax
Sometimes, an argument about economic policy is like an oil spill
Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
Pen pusher
My fascination with fountain pens
What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?
The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
