What makes a hero?
Today, our heroes are demi-gods with superhuman powers, genius detectives and, painful though it is to admit, activists
The writings of Lewis and Tolkien embody conservative environmentalism
The Conservative party were once the country party. They could be again. It might even net them some votes
Boris’s war on obesity will fail
The government’s new anti-obesity crusade will not tackle obesity, only obesity statistics
The war of Boris’s stomach
The sugar tax failed to make us eat less sugar. Will Boris’s plan be any different?
Fat people can’t be happy
The lies of ‘fat activists’ are making us unhappy and sick
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art