Populism’s problem
The anti-elitism inherent in working-class, right-wing movements will prove their downfall
Tensions in Ireland were bound to boil over
The Irish have had enough of being lectured
Ireland’s modern reformation
One cannot shed a faith without adopting another
The fools, the fools, they’ve left us the opposition
Ireland’s civil war political parties are determined to sink together
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt