The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
God is in the details even of secular history
The story of the Middle East cannot be explained without religion
Militantly waiting for the end of time
Sunni or Shia, Muslim or Christian, modern or pre-modern — messianism retains a potent attraction
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
The vague vision of Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer was competent but directionless on foreign policy
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Why assisted dying failed
It was dangerous and it had no democratic mandate
The EU must change course on energy
European industry is finally standing up to irrational EU climate policies
Equality of opportunity, and other bedtime stories
Britain cannot make progress if equality is its highest goal
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
The value of social value
Social value requirements have made public procurement more expensive, more bureaucratic and harder for smaller firms to compete