Artillery Row
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
The right does not need religion
We should not mourn the end of the Quiet Revival
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
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 lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business