Master of sword and word
Field Marshal William Slim was not only Britain’s greatest military field commander, but our finest soldier-writer, too
When young men headed East
The early growth of the Empire was fuelled by spices, not slaves
The British empire, for good and ill
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning offers the first serious counterblast against the hysterical orthodoxy
Violence against history
An aggressively one-sided book
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
Strictly Come Tory
Who will win the hearts of the nation?
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
An irreversible step
If Britain embraces euthanasia for the terminally ill, it won’t end there
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
