Belief and the Blob
The Bloom Review paints a grim picture of modern Britain
Radical chic charities
The madness of giving activist charities public money to oppose government policy
Beeb better
Against state-funded acti-journalism
The great international student scandal
With an ever-higher number of foreign postgraduates not even turning up for their courses, some universities are not selling an education, but a visa
A plagiarism success story?
Whatever happened to due diligence
A moral panic that should have been spiked
The needle spiking epidemic was a media invention
The meaning of Jacinda Ardern
Expect soggy authoritarianism from elite darlings
Badgers complaining about foxes eating chickens
Some of the government’s critics need more introspection
The post-liberal trap
The new communitarianism looks suspiciously like what we have already
The ideology that refuses to die
US neoconservatism is enjoying an unmerited afterlife in the UK
Food for thoughtlessness
The march of the public health puritans continues
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Why young men like Donald Trump
He cuts through the sterility and severity of modern life
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
