The ties that bind
Political unions are not determined by economic realities
Leaving Hong Kong – will China’s loss be Britain’s gain?
It’s Hong Kong’s middle class – not the hyper-wealthy – who may leave. But Britain may not be their preferred option.
Reconsidering the case for ID cards
If tracking Covid-19 requires “immunity passports” then why not as part of an ID card?
An incomplete history of the Swinging Sixties
Any history of the 1960s that neglects mass culture is not to be taken entirely seriously
Abortion Law should not be decided by courts
American conservatives and Polish liberals are both right about abortion law. It should be a matter for elected politicians, not Supreme Courts
Letter from Washington: The perils of Flight 93 democracy
When politics is all-out war, everyone’s a loser
Young man in a hurry
Is Douglas Ross ready to lead the Scottish Conservatives?
The medical community’s revolt against lockdown
For a government which insists it is “following the science,” there is a striking reluctance to listen to the scientists
Swap till you drop
Thomas Woodham-Smith enjoys a great trade tradition
Liberty in lockdown
Is it time to release democracy from quarantine and resuscitate the rule of law?
UN-Believable
Women are cancelled, white people are racist, the UN goes woke, and limited and specific law-breaking
Wherefore art thou, America?
The United States’s travel ban makes us all poorer
Ghost of a Contrarian: Christopher Hitchens’s ‘Letters’ Revisited
Letters to a Young Contrarian: a twentieth century retrospective by a man who saw himself as a sixties radical