Britain doesn’t need a strongman, it needs a spine
Politicians must stop delaying difficult decisions
Mass migration will not solve the pensions crisis
It just kicks the demographic can down the road
The case against the Palestinian visa
In Gaza, indoctrination begins at nursery
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
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
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
What if the AI bubble bursts?
Arguing that an AI bubble is a good thing reeks of techno-optimist complacency
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off