Sam Bidwell
Sam Bidwell is a Parliamentary Researcher and freelance writer, who has written for a number of UK publications on geopolitics, culture, and current affairs. He tweets at @sam_bidwell
The enduring Commonwealth
The rise and fall (and rise?) of the Commonwealth club
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
