Archives
Confected outrage doesn’t change the facts about the family
Why does British political debate often disregard children’s interests?
Flickering with fire and ice
Beethoven: 1st piano concerto, &c (DG)
Is the party over for festivals?
Why music festivals have lost their purpose
The descent of man
The mainstreaming of misandry
Liz Truss: what if…?
An insider’s guide to a premiership cut short
The drowning man of Europe?
The cooling of Western attitudes towards Ukraine
The empty gap
The meaning of the felling of the Sycamore Gap
How siege warfare returned
Dark histories offer insight into our dark present
On a different plane
British air power in theory and practice
Disposable vapes and the race to prohibition
The state should enforce existing rules, not ban disposable vapes
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Sheikhs on a train
Patronising foreign people, and other progressive trends
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Anti-Christian persecution is an international problem
Britain should use its diplomatic influence to help
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
