Artillery Row
We need democracy, not the permanent bureaucracy
Civil servants are hampering the work of our elected representatives
The Conservatives must clean their rooms
Conservative MPs appear to have forgotten that improvement starts at home
The National Library of Scotland is a national embarrassment
Dissent is marginalised amid establishment sycophancy
Things can only get worse
There is a vast epistemic divide between those who experience decline, and those who don’t
The transferable skills scam
How higher education learned to stop worrying about disciplines and love generic competencies
Building a house on rock
Danny Kruger was right about Britain and Christianity
Don’t arrest Palestine Action supporters
You do not have to like the group to think arresting its defenders is a step too far
Israel should not freeze out Jerusalem’s Christians
Politicians must encourage local authorities to back away from the churches
Prohibiting pints instead of doing politics
Reducing the drink-drive limit will sound good and achieve nothing
Nicola Sturgeon’s feminist fairy tale
For all the rhetoric, she made life worse for Scottish women
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
Kemi Badenoch was right about the chaos in Clapham
Rioting as entertainment is a First World phenomenon
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them