Murder, memes and the memory of 9/11
9/11 memes illustrate our disturbed relationship with the very nature of reality
The secrets of familial suffering
Recovering from the burden of generational pain can be a private act
Playing the victim
A new book satirises the bizarre dynamics of social justice activism
Houellebecq, joy and Jesus
A morbid pessimist reminds us of the purity of faith
Battling the body
The David fiasco would baffle Italians
A camp icon
The paradoxes of Trump’s truth-telling
A failed Oscar Wilde
The rise and fall of Milo Yiannopoulos
Unicorn Frappuccino Instagram Barbie
The meaninglessness of Ariana Grande
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
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
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
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
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then