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?
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Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
