The Conservatives must return to the centre
Populist demagoguery has ruined the party
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
Kemi Badenoch’s “ming vase” must be shattered
The Conservative candidate should not be allowed to escape scrutiny
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
