Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Mind your business Britain
A struggling government turns to prohibition and regulation; a restless public may yet rediscover its taste for freedom.
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
AI and the Jefferson Option
Eighteenth-century advice on surviving the AI apocalypse
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
Are automated auctions on the way?
New technology has a double edge
What’s in a name?
Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?