Archives
Why are our leaders so useless?
We look in vain for direction or hope from the leaders of tomorrow
Fewer universities, more skills
The government needs to expand further education while reducing higher education
No Time for Cinema to Die
What does the postponement of the new James Bond film mean for the future of cinema?
A tale of two stranglers
We won’t accept policemen are corrupt because the thought of anarchy is intolerable
The games people play
‘This Sporting Life’ should be read by our managerial ruling class who dismiss what they do not understand as “populist” or “right-wing”
Distinctly average magic
They’d have clapped, it would have been the best clapping
Did Boris deliver?
The Prime Minister would prefer to overpromise than exceed expectations
Streaming Daniel Kitson
The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church explores the possibility of human connection
How much longer can Greece and Turkey avoid war?
Greece and Turkey nearly came to blows last summer, and the risk of war remains
Is there a future for GCSEs and A levels?
The examination system is far from broken, so stop trying to replace it
Most Read
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
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion