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
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
Opposing big government means opposing climate change
We need a market-led course to net zero
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Stubbs at flay
His controlled charnel house gave the painter a peerless understanding of horses
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
