Sam Taylor
Sam Taylor managed global equity portfolios around the world before becoming the Chief Executive of These Islands ahead of its launch. Find him on Twitter at @staylorish
The myth of Scotland’s Covid superiority
Scottish Government advisers are using misleading data to promote Scottish exceptionalism
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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
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
