BBC butterflies
Trans charity Global Butterflies seems harmless — but are they really cuckoos in the nest?
Britain isn’t the Balkans
The UK is not, despite heated rhetoric, on the brink of sectarian violence. But it is heading in the wrong direction
The Conservatives must learn from their failures
Our failure was predictable and must not be repeated
Nigel Farage had a point on Ukraine
Putin is the aggressor, yes, but Western states still behaved irresponsibly
Of mice and men and Magdalen
C. S. Lewis’s Oxford by Simon Horobin
Embrace your inner exile
How can we appreciate art in alienating times?
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
Commonwealth citizens should not be allowed to vote
Newly arrived non-citizens being allowed to vote makes a farce of British democracy
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Labour’s looming constitutional vandalism
A Labour landslide will complete the Blairite destruction of Britain’s unique constitution
Why levelling up failed
We must think local in order to foster growth
