Our ideology in the North
Is there such a thing as social neoconservatism?
I think therefore I speak very carefully
The law, philosophy and words for male and female
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The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing