Tom Switzer
Tom Switzer is executive director at the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney. He is a co-editor of Prudence and Power: The Writings of Owen Harries
The dangers of defenestration
Political instability in Australia provides sobering lessons for plotters in the Labour Party
Time to get real on Ukraine
What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole of Ukraine, and yet loses the balance of power?
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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
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
