Lawfare versus warfare
Soldiers have been collateral damage in a cold-blooded political campaign
How to botch a war
A cluster-bumble of the greatest magnitude
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
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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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Respect for the quarry
Can we love the things we kill?
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
Will capitalism end capitalism?
Artificial intelligence is perverting the logic of our economic and political systems
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships