In Defence of Neil Ferguson
Simon Anthony responds to Toby Young’s and Ben Lewis’s criticism of Neil Ferguson
Is Lockdown costing more lives than Covid?
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We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
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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
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with