Joe should go back to school
Here’s how the new president can unite the country — and pick up votes
The lasting power of simple virtues
Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition by Edmund Fawcett
Return of the dragon
China’s Covid belligerence will only isolate it further
The coronavirus cure for global populism?
How the pandemic exposed some leaders’ bluster and might yet undermine authoritarian regimes
India’s rape crisis
India is gripped by a “rape emergency”, a brutal conflict that is escalating
Pursued by Furies
Neither Roy Jenkins nor Enoch Powell became prime minister, but they are our two most influential postwar politicians
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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
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
Three pheasants, one Land Rover
Labour’s new war on pheasant shooting is about who gets to decide how England’s land is used
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge