Britain’s arms sales are its own business
Our industries — or what is left of them — should be promoting our interests
The damaging myth of the “martial races”
An Imperial hangover has caused the elite romanticisation of Afghan migrants
The British establishment has committed itself to motivated ignorance
An investigation into community cohesion cannot be serious if it assumes that communities are cohesive
Against esoteric Skinnerism
We should not mistake a big personality for meaningful politics
The South Africanisation of Britain
The scaffolding of Britain’s state is buckling
Priti terrible
How can the Conservatives trumpet their success on grooming gangs while Priti Patel is a shadow minister?
A Tube train to nowhere
Public-spirited activism can obscure a crisis in state legitimacy
Get ready for blasphemy laws
The British state appears to be trying to accommodate Islamic jurisprudence
Boris Johnson, the Wrath of God
On the resurrection of the bloated Lazarus
Of course we shouldn’t dim the sun
Dominic Cummings is casting a lot more heat than light
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The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China