The Church of anti-racism
Anglicanism is replacing theology with progressive proceduralism
The self-defeating earnestness of anti-extremism
I played the anti-extremist Prevent game and soon became engrossed in an improbable far-right love affair
Britain needs to go back to basics on foreign policy
Britain cannot be subordinated to Europe or America but must make itself powerful again
Why Trump is good for Europe
He will force our leaders to be more realistic
Into the Boomerverse
Older commentators cannot understand how younger people experience the UK
We need zero tolerance for Islamism
Political Islam is ruining any prospects for integration
The shadows of Christmas
Why M.R. James is the real spirit of the season
Cosmopolis lost
The Erasmus scheme is the legacy of a lost Europe
The shame of Britain
The establishment has failed Britain — and now we are failing Britain too
Broken bonds
Can Britain’s social safety net be rewoven?
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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
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
The shadow of the thorn tree
Christian culture must combine tradition and modernity
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
We’re all living in America
For all the talk of “BRICS” and “multipolarity”, America is still number one
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
Gentrification? Better than deprivation
Elephant and Castle has been radically spruced up, but not everyone is happy about it
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic