What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
The countercultural island within conservative Hungary
A dispatch from Sziget Festival
Land of his birth
Little of the Hungarian aristocrats’ world remains, except a few crumbling buildings — and Count Bánffy’s stories
Memoirs of a Microaggressor
Will Collins traces the aristocratic roots of the social justice warriors’ search for purity
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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
Middle management in the Middle East
The war against Iran has emphasised the importance of deep leadership
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat