Ian Acheson
Professor Ian Acheson is a former prison Governor and internationally recognised expert on combating violent extremism. He was born and raised near the border in Northern Ireland. @NotThatBigIan
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
Eternally complicit, hell-fired thugs
Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast transcends the identity strait jacket
Criminal stupidity
Sorting your “he” from your “ze” won’t improve places where one would hesitate to keep farm animals
What do Sinn Fein have to do to get a break?
The national media has turned a blind eye to Ulster republican delinquency
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
The EU is changing on immigration
A firmer stance is being taken — but will it be enough?
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
