Britain’s twilight war
The UK is fighting an unwinnable conflict in a world that it doesn’t understand, without plan or purpose
The immigration merry-go-round
Britain’s discourse on migration is a timewasting charade
Gimme shelter
The case for reopening the asylums
The next Great Depression?
Economic warfare has severe implications
Sterling’s last stand
War enthusiasm is endangering the British economy
The West’s self-defeating sanctions
America and its allies are committing geo-political suicide for no discernible gain
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
We must strengthen British capitalism
Having a successful capitalist system depends on having a strong state
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
A garden reborn
a garden reborn
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
The right moment?
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
A very postmodern schism
A postmodern spectacle exposed deep divisions about the nature of truth
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends