Edwin van de Haar
Dr Edwin van de Haar is the author of Human Nature & World Affairs: An Introduction to Classical Liberalism and International Relations Theory, recently published by the Institute of Economic Affairs
Liberal Britain, not Little England
A post-Brexit Britain needs a foreign policy reset
Newsnight and the rapist
The BBC should be embarrassed by its careless coverage of a man who has now been convicted of rape
Learning in the round
Spreading fingers over a globe, not pinching them on a screen, is the best way to answer questions
The left-wing defence of free speech
A recent book mounts a rare and powerful, if partly flawed, case for free expression from the Left
Less than an animal?
It is surely wrong that animal foetuses enjoy more protection under the law than human ones
Where is so much gender confusion coming from?
The scope of inquiry into gender and young people should be expanded to schools
Off with the fairies
Unsurprisingly, the most brilliant of all English music-theatre pieces are mostly overlooked
Crocodile Keir
For all of Sunak’s shoddy timing, Starmer’s opportunism was pathetic
A sound of Rowling thunder
Scotland’s government and police seem determined to turn themselves into a laughing stock
Playing the victim
A new book satirises the bizarre dynamics of social justice activism
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection