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 big picture
A story of modern Britain, a moral tale, of venality, hubris and fraud
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
Killing with kindness
Sentimentality and euphemism cloak the cause of assisted suicide
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
Religion without mercy
Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness
Is university still worth it?
Rising fees raise questions about the value of some degrees