No, lockdowns were not inevitable
The Hallett inquiry has ignored the best arguments against shutdowns
Signal failure
An inside account of the HS2 raises worrying questions about our government’s capacity to build infrastructure
The best-laid plans
A decade-old novel is worth reconsidering for how it addresses the questions of modernity
What nation, whose interests?
The struggle for “democratisation” might achieve the opposite of its apparent aims
The costs of cost-benefit analysis
We have to be more sceptical about the use of data in governance
A day in Scientopia
When we think in terms of science, do we lose our humanity?
No lessons learned from lockdown
Despite all the nuance and retrospective moderation, the Covid inquiry leaves us no closer confronting the failures of technocracy
Contra Hitchens on the election
It was reasonable not to vote to prevent a Labour majority
Lockdowns and the problem with science-based policy
Evidence in politics is great, but what evidence and to what ends?
Cancel culture is a culture
Overcoming authoritarianism will take courage, not just policy fixes
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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
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
Truth and consequences for ministers
Former Ministers should be hauled back before MPs to justify their poor decisions
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form