The pleasure of hating
Debates over what constitutes ‘hate speech’ reintroduce dangerous concepts of sin and morality into our common law
Islamophobia and the suicide of the West
In our perverse desire to tolerate the intolerable we have succumbed to Christophobia
Why we might look back on Trump’s foreign policy with fondness
Joe Biden’s election signals a return to Washington’s default liberal and progressive values, especially in foreign affairs
Brexlit and the decline of the English novel
Literature’s outraged elitists chose smug contempt over real insight
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies