Why are our leaders so useless?
We look in vain for direction or hope from the leaders of tomorrow
The very real danger of conspiracy theories
Conspiracy theorists may be easy to dismiss, but history shows that such myths often end in bloodshed
Time for Covid disobedience?
Have the British people abandoned their love of liberty?
In praise of political tittle-tattle
Lady Swire’s new memoir dishes the dirt on the Cameronian Government
Boris beware: Nigel’s making plans for you
Farage will soon return from his political grave to ensure Brexit gets done
A conservative chairman won’t save the BBC
No matter who takes over the BBC, the corporation is irrevocably broken
Why do Remainers love the EU so?
The greatest unrequited love story of all time
In praise of the military coup
Why, sometimes, military coups can be a force for good
When Political Families Fall Out
Has the dysfunctional family replaced the dynastic one in politics?
Take Your Picton
Rick Picton Thomas would have known what to say to those bent on removing his ancestor’s statue
The sentinel sleeps in Lothian
A new book is full of architectural treasures that the Scottish Government should do a better job of treasuring
Jonathan Glazer’s speech was an affirmation of Jewishness
Critics who accuse him of denying his identity have things backwards
Sunak stumbles
The Prime Minister spent half of the afternoon trying to extract his foot from his mouth
Why Labour has the best history books
Labour continues to blunder down that long blind Blairite alleyway, unable to turn back or find an exit
The establishment prefers distractions to solutions
Politicians discuss irrelevances rather than confronting the obvious
Canals go national
Canals gave Britain a single national economy, one that connected resources, factories, population centres and ports
No questions about the woman question, please
Activists are even being excluded from conversations about activism
The shadowy economics of fentanyl
One professor is investigating how the deadly drug trade works — and how it might be fought
Try Christianity
Reflecting on the cross, we find a truth that is often too easy to forget
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are
The betrayal of Charlie Hebdo
The French intelligentsia has reneged on promises of fearless free speech and embraced a pervasive culture of censorship
