Prosperity or decline
This decade, Britain’s choices will define whether it survives and flourishes or faces permanent decline
How to stop banks’ new social credit system
We need new legislation to force banks to respect free speech
Cosmetic democracy
Britain’s new system of government
Chip race with China
China’s purchase of Newport Wafer Fab follows a strategy to control high-tech supply chains. Does our Government grasp the danger?
Britain’s online censorship bill
The government’s Online Safety Bill will make us more like the autocracies that propagate disinformation
Novel weapons
Could we be unwittingly researching both sides of a hypersonic arms race?
Covid is a symptom of the Age of China
British statecraft is not protecting us from an emerging autocratic superpower
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
Truth and consequences for ministers
Former Ministers should be hauled back before MPs to justify their poor decisions