Ancient wisdom, modern foolishness
We learn more about the decline of philosophy in our time than about its rise in antiquity
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
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 miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
Who will pound longest?
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?
An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge