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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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
