From digital freedom to the virtual panopticon
The generation that grew up online is watching the web close in
Blowing the whistle on Birmingham’s integration problem
The banning of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans is symptomatic of a society in decline
The left don’t need Big John
Political movements embarrass themselves by trying to recruit unlikely spokespeople
No one is fighting a proxy war for Britain
Kemi Badenoch has unwittingly exposed the need for Britain to change course on foreign policy
Resist the social media moral panic
The case against social media is both hysterical and hypocritical
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
BBC News prefers some voices to others
How the Beeb fails to inform
Think tanks have to think again
Policy wonks either have to work within the system we’ve got or change it
Target practice gone wrong
The RAF’s recruitment scandal exposes loopholes in the Equality Act
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
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
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)