Matthew Kirtley
Matthew Kirtley is a writer and public relations consultant based in London.
JD Vance’s tech policy is a MAGA microcosm
Does JD Vance hope to restore the Jeffersonian tradition of freedom?
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people