What’s wrong with our newspapers
Important news is being drowned in the tawdry and the trivial
Island of strangers?
The decline of popular aphorisms reflects the disappearance of a shared moral code
Why DEI is in decline
Every idea has its day
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
McCarthyism, Cancel Culture and the new woke agenda
J. C. D. Clark reveals how Alan Dershowitz’s book is a nostalgic defence of the ‘American dream’ and of American exceptionalism
Derailing the gravy train
The question of human rights, Christian morals and Western ethics has hitherto been an academic debate; now it is in the public arena
Mapping the Blob
The Long March draws together evidence that we half knew but shied away from
Learning from History
Despite Coronavirus, some things will never change
Why they rebel…
J. C. D. Clark delves into Extinction Rebellion’s new pamphlet in search of something more
The unhappy iconoclast of the Right
J. C. D Clark reviews Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier by D. W. Hayton
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Will capitalism end capitalism?
Artificial intelligence is perverting the logic of our economic and political systems
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not