Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Reform can’t make Britain Christian again
Modern secularisation lies deeper than politics
The perpetual adolescence of the childfree
No one has to be a parent — but reasons for childlessness can still be immature
Against the Guinness cult
It is time we stopped making so much fuss about a distinctly average beer
We need to talk about nuclear regulation
The fate of Fingleton is more important than the budget
Slaves’ descendants don’t deserve reparations
A new book fails to make a rational or moral case for reparations
Make 16-year-olds adults again
We cannot give them votes while treating them like children
MPs are trying to legalise full-term abortions
New proposals to completely decriminalise abortion are immoral
Take the cap off
Why do child benefits stop at a point lower than our replacement rate?
The Brexiteer’s case for a European Army
Here, and not in the EU, Europeans will be better together
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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
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
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
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits