The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
Can liberalism recover?
A new book charts a different course for a dispositional liberalism
Hating the game
Modern game shows are a disturbing reflection of our culture
The crisis of teaching
Everybody is to blame for the declining standards in universities
Mental illness is more complex than we think
There are no easy answers when it comes to mental health
Britain isn’t the Balkans
The UK is not, despite heated rhetoric, on the brink of sectarian violence. But it is heading in the wrong direction
The problem with precarity
Professional insecurity is harming workers and institutions alike
Seeing through Judith Butler
Very little substance lurks within the obscure prose
The F-word
A serious accusation should be treated with appropriate seriousness
Beyond mental health awareness
The roots of better mental health may lie deeper than we are willing to admit
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
The slow vibe shift
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Three pheasants, one Land Rover
Labour’s new war on pheasant shooting is about who gets to decide how England’s land is used
The costs of telling the truth too late
The girl guiding decision is causing pain — so why do activists seek to prolong it?
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them