Sinicizing the CCP
Xi Jinping’s cynical use of Confucius
The real benefits of loyalty and order
Evocation of a more hopeful culture lost is both the book’s strength and weakness
Russian Orthodoxy on trial
Symphonia or caesaropapism?
The empire strikes back
France is going to the polls in the shadow of its colonial past
Pardonable sensationalism
Kevin Lygo’s ‘The Emperors of Byzantium’ revives the dynastic, top-down history deemed passé by academics
Liberté autorité identité
France pivots to liberal authoritarianism, not conservatism
Failed state
How history makes rioters of the French
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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
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.