David Coates
David Coates has a PhD in Intellectual History from University of St Andrews. He is a Catholic and a Tory, and tweets at @_jestingpilate_
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
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
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
