David Selbourne
David Selbourne is the author of The Principle of Duty, The Spirit of the Age and The Losing Battle with Islam. His latest work, The Free Society in Crisis: A History of Our Times, was published in the United States in 2019 by Prometheus Books
The decline of the quality press
Frequent hyperbole means the media would struggle to describe a genuine disaster
A descent into chaos
What does the future hold beyond Brexit and Covid?
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
Why the Democrats cannot be populists
It goes against the managerial nature of the party
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
Iranian women deserve more support
Self-styled internationalists are failing them
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?