Spinoza, the true conservative
Spinoza’s earth-bound philosophy is a safeguard against idealism
The misunderstood satirist of sin
In the minds of many, this book threatened to undermine and destabilise the moral order
The problem with “lies and misinformation”
The charge of “misinformation” can be pure misdirection
Digital killed the analogue man
Despite the seductions of the virtual, we can’t escape our bodies
The Nineties: smells like Gen X nostalgia
Chuck Klosterman’s book sheds rose-tinted light on the decade
2020: It’s no place for the old
The debate over Fairytale of New York is proof that 2020 is the year in which woke doctrine went into overdrive
England’s soft underbelly
Patrick West reviews The Channel, by Charlie Connelly
There’s no need to shout
Patrick West reviews You’re Not Listening by Kate Murphy
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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
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Are automated auctions on the way?
New technology has a double edge
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
Three pheasants, one Land Rover
Labour’s new war on pheasant shooting is about who gets to decide how England’s land is used