The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
The folly of self-flagellation
An older, patriotic multiculturalism has curdled in recent years
The dirty secret of the Muslim world
The neglect of the history of Islamic slavery reflects a culture of American exceptionalism and a tradition of denial
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
Digging the Holy Land’s past
Our modern controversies about Jerusalem have ancient and medieval roots
The end of “Anglo-Saxon”?
The rebranding of Anglo-Saxon England is senseless and silly
Britain is still safe for Jews
It may be far from perfect — but where would be safer?
Postcards from before the war
It is no longer possible to reflect upon Israeli culture as if the “Question of Palestine” could be brushed aside
Chapter and verse on the unknowable Bard
The striking thing about Sir Stanley’s Shakespeare is how unsexy he is
In defence of the Dark Ages
The early medieval period really was “dark” both in terms of the historical record and in contrast to the sophistication of Rome
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
What’s wrong with our newspapers
Important news is being drowned in the tawdry and the trivial
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them