Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
The limits of Laila Cunningham
Reform’s new stars must prove that they can think deeply and not just indulge in anti-woke posturing
MPs should reject barbarism
We need more, not less, accountability when it comes to abortion
Resist the home education clampdown
Labour’s bill would turn home-educating families into surveillance targets
Kemi Badenoch’s “ming vase” must be shattered
The Conservative candidate should not be allowed to escape scrutiny
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
The British state is failing to protect women
Misogyny, rape and sectarian violence go increasingly unchallenged in the UK
Welcome to Hawk Tuah World
Population: all of us
Who hears the voiceless?
Leaving unborn children without legal protections would be an ethical disgrace
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Can we reduce the manosphere to mental health?
Louis Theroux’s attempt to find the trauma that motivates androcratic influencers is unconvincing
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
Gas shock therapy
Ed Miliband must abandon his absurd and failing approach to energy
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
The truth about Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was actually a black woman
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.