Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
Why Europeans don’t get Elon
Twitter has brought us into direct, unfiltered contact with an America we don’t really know or understand
The West is weak
The Russian-American prisoner exchange sends a catastrophic message of Western frailty
Beware of the K-Hype
The strange state of the States
A real education
We need a revolution in the way we teach, the curriculum, extracurriculars and funding
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
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From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party