James Lachrymose
James Lachrymose writes and podcasts at Anglology and tweets at @echetus
The China panic and the Indian fact
The debate over the Chagos Islands has been clouded by fantasy about Beijing, obscuring the far more consequential role of New Delhi
The decline of investigative journalism
Democracy for Sale may have found the only MPs actually doing their jobs
Reform should ignore the drums of war
The appointment of Alan Mendoza is a bad sign for Reform’s foreign policy
The government wants more criminals out in the streets
Our authorities are committed to trying everything but the solution
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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
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
The right does not need religion
We should not mourn the end of the Quiet Revival
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
