Mugged by misrepresentation
Mark Humphrys faces the loss of his university post, if the online mob succeeds
Study in prejudice
Richard Ingrams’ “roughing up” of G. K. Chesterton begs the question: who is creating a smokescreen around whom?
The simplest thing is difficult
Does Dominic Cummings know what he doesn’t know about Defence policy?
The most hateful decision
Honour, power and will at Mers-el-Kébir 80 years ago today
We can all be Gaullists today
Britain sustained de Gaulle. The general’s views on Britain should resonate now.
Righteous rioting is an imported concept
Are our rioters all Europeans now?
Free State or failed state?
The collapse of the Irish party system is news, there and abroad
We shouldn’t handle the truth about Coronavirus
There are grown-up reasons for the state and the plague is one
Fenian fantasist
No journalist has so vituperatively fed the ancestral hatreds and dormant furies of Ireland as Fintan O’Toole
Bis interimitur qui suis armis perit
It’s not all Greek to Oxford classicists
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
Crossing the public health Rubicon
Are there any limits to statist safetyism?
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
