Is Mark Carney a Straussian?
The rules-based order might have been based on fiction but fiction is essential in politics
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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
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub