John Oxley
John Oxley has written for The Spectator, Unherd and City AM among others. He tweets at @Mr_John_Oxley
The whores and mores of Hanoverian London
The (not so) gentlemen of 18th-century London were a libidinous lot
Alastair Campbell’s gender neutral nonsense
Alastair Campbell might not care about single-sex spaces, but women do
Something rotten in the state of Germany
The Bundestag has weakened the criminal penalties for child pornography
We must punish the parents
How should France tackle the problem of repeat juvenile offenders?
Five rules for governing
Use your power, bring back politics, extend your wings, rebuild your base — and govern in poetry
Alan Bennett at 90
From the small screen to the stage, Alan Bennett has been the poet of awkwardness and isolation
Europe invaded
We must heed the warnings from Hungary and Poland about migration
The new Ottomans
The fall and rise of Istanbul under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Free speech is a waste of breath
Free speech is not our cause, and it gets us nowhere anyway
Moral progress has happened not because of, but in spite of woke activism
People who have enabled falsehoods and abuse cannot take credit for civilisational advances