When did psychology get so cringe?
Mates don’t let mates inform manipulative politics with bad behavioural science
Passport to your soul
Opening the door to vaccine passports could lead to years of oppression, says Patrick Fagan
#BeKind and #StaySafe, or else!
How “Nudging” is damaging our society and why behavioural scientists must be held to account
The dark psychology of Extinction Rebellion
The deathly symbolism of Extinction Rebellion is designed to make us conform to extreme measures
The Lockdown Lobotomy
The effects of lockdown have caused far more damage than the virus ever could
Face masks make you stupid
Why face masks are a form of dehumanisation
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
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
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Morals before wealth
250 years after Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, an earlier work remains the key to understanding it.
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
Protecting what matters
The government’s new integration and extremism policy exposes a regime in denial
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy