Luca Johnson
Luca Johnson is a freelance writer, focusing on British culture and history. He tweets at @AmiableArgument
The enigma of Englishness
The English have debated their national nature for centuries
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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
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.
Wunderbar wines
The love affair between British and German wine is an ancient one
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
