The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
Don’t blame the victor
A power imbalance is not proof of oppression
The curious case of Andrew Tate
A very 21st century troll
The right to be reserved
Not everybody wants to open up
The Great Vladsby
Like Gatsby, Putin’s self-destructive nostalgia will be his undoing
The perils of prosperity
Does the decadent West have the will to defy Putin?
The good leader delusion
Woke leaders are able to disguise their more cynical realpolitik
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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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Who will pound longest?
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
Making the case for liberalism
Wooldridge’s polemic draws together the disparate traditions of liberal thought and action
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think