Nicholas Wapshott
Nicholas Wapshott is an author and a journalist. Follow him at @NWapshott
Golden boy turned starstruck rube
The self-justifying self-portrait of a journalist who never made it
In praise of centibillionaires
When people are free to make a lot of money from new businesses, everybody wins
Why do we mourn the unborn?
Our attitudes towards children in the womb are hopelessly confused
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
The “conversion therapy” ban still makes for bad law
Recent amendments have failed to answer serious concerns about its implications
The first rule of Plot Club is…
The Tories are absolutely, definitely, certainly not scheming to replace Rishi Sunak
Fear the Keir
Starmer is Blair 2.0 — but this time, things can only get worse
How to destroy football
“Blue cards” will only add to the confusion and subjective rulings we’re now seeing
Scarlet Blake is a man
Indulging the fantasies of violent criminals is endangering women
Death throes of a dictatorship?
Amid war and discontent, military rule in Myanmar is faltering
Realism is not the same as self-pity
There is a limit to how much women can physically protect themselves from men