Short cut to a Mob takeover
Today the multiply-tattooed Balkan war criminal look is popular
Power to the pigs and les keufs
France is competing with the UK to be every bit as draconian and liberty-infringing
The meek inherit nothing
Islamism is increasingly held not to be a deviant from Islam, but an orthodox aim of the “religion of peace”
In praise of the Midlands
The Midlands are hurried through, unappreciated on the way to somewhere else
From major to minor
Who’s minor and who’s major reveal the power of collective prejudice
History in the Age of Woke
Macron aims to rewrite history, with Britain not far behind
A plague on lazarettos
Buildings born of plagues do have a life as something other than problematic ruins
Jobsworths home and away
The referee is a blessed form of jobsworth
Don’t mind your language
There is bugger-all to celebrate. So create a rich vocabulary of despondency
Train to nowhere
HS2 represents the guilt of successive central governments about the centralisation they are incapable of correcting
New rules
Policing the spirit of the law
Islamophobia and the suicide of the West
In our perverse desire to tolerate the intolerable we have succumbed to Christophobia
Best of the year that was
Put down the pandemic novels: Here’s my favourite fiction of 2020
Why George Galloway is voting Conservative
The Leader of the All for Unity party says that tactical voting may succeed in destroying Nicola Sturgeon where the Salmond Inquiry has so far failed
Excl: New York Democratic Assemblyman says ‘Cuomo must share blame with Trump’ for pandemic response
New York’s first Korean-American Assemblyman Ron Kim faces the wrath of the Cuomo administration after he unveiled a cover up of the state’s Covid-19 care home deaths
Louis XIV: a monarch of purpose
Despite its length, Philip Mansel’s biography of the Sun King is ‘a welcome prize for any reviewer’
How is Labour shaping up under Starmer?
Labour would certainly not win a general election if it were held tomorrow; but they are heading in the right direction
How the government’s maternity bill seeks to deny the reality of sex
The avoidance of the word “woman” in relation to pregnancy is part of a wider assault on women’s rights from transgender activists
The battle for Ofcom
Ofcom is currently a bastion of woke liberal values; appointing Paul Dacre as the new head would go a long way in redressing the balance
No place at the bar for challenging woke politics
The Bar Council’s verdict on Jon Holbrook’s cancellation last month shows that the bar has become an unwelcoming place for those who believe in free speech