John Kampfner
John Kampfner is author of Why the Germans Do It Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country (Atlantic) @johnkampfner
Outcast of the angry generation
Mahler’s political journey from Baader-Meinhof terrorist to Holocaust denier illustrates Germany’s post-Hitler psychodrama
Having what it takes to secede
Only a tiny minority of independence movements have been both peaceful and successful
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
AI and the Jefferson Option
Eighteenth-century advice on surviving the AI apocalypse
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
How to get filthy wrong
Gary Stevenson has replaced economics with politics, and the results speak for themselves
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
Nonsense and neurodivergence
The Church of England is confusing irrationality with inclusivity
NATO’s Ankara moment
NATO’s middle powers must not depend so heavily on the USA
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
