When classicists attack classics
Sanskrit isn’t the only ancient language to be affected by academic imperialism
Taking on the right-on with cold, hard facts
A practical manual for anyone who has no choice but to sit on committees with idealistic intellectuals
Dear Rishi, what about the arts?
The Tories appear to have no plan for the Arts Council
Paradise dimmed
John Milton’s Paradise Lost is the greatest poem in the English language, yet it seems to be fading slowly from public view. Who could write a new national epic?
A civilised discussion
If we are to defend civilisation, we had better pin down what we are talking about
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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
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.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
The American chaos machine
The United States’s current aggressive expansionism and domestic strife are an intrinsic part of its national character
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Carl Schmitt in Miami
Can Marco Rubio establish a new American system in Latin America?
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Kemi Badenoch was right about the chaos in Clapham
Rioting as entertainment is a First World phenomenon
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation