Darwin Friend
Darwin Friend is head of research at the TaxPayers’ Alliance
Counting Covid costs
We need a broad perspective of Britain’s pandemic failures
Fun in the sun
Summer finally appeared for the most civilised drinks event of the season
Towards a shared Englishness
There is a third way between civic nationalism and ethno-nationalism
Israel’s forever war
Netanyahu risks dragging his country and his allies into an open-ended regional conflict
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
In the beginning: neither fish nor fowl
Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson
The vindication of Cass
An attempt to overturn restrictions on providing puberty blockers has failed
Starmer and the blob
The Conservatives must focus on our constitutional order
Portraits in cowardice
Conservative MPs need to rediscover their spines if they want to be effective
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
Identity politics has undermined policing
Sir Mark Rowley should address the partiality of the police