William Boot
William Boot has reported from Abyssinia.
Confessions of the new Grub Street
The money is bad, the hours long and the white wine copious and cheap
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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
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
