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Britain must get real on foreign policy
Dim clichés and childish chest-beating are not going to help us
Did we get Brexit done?
Brexit is unfinished, yes, but the potential is enormous
In defence of emotional voting
We cannot expect voters to think in cold rational terms
Dancing around the issues
Who won? Certainly not the country
The pain of Sinn Fein
How has support for the party fallen so dramatically?
You can’t beat the left at its own game
Conservative attempts to reverse leftist victimology are doomed to fail
Why “buffer stocks” don’t work
Yet again, economists have failed to understand Smith
Lactose intolerance
Stories of social progress are our mother’s, er, I mean, our parents’ milk
On Américanisation
French life is being transformed by the influence of American culture
The rise and fall of Rishi
Exceptional good fortune met common mediocrity
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
Regulations without services
How the state is prohibiting without providing
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits