Artillery Row
The lives of Mary Magdalene
A fine book explores her life and afterlife
Effective affinities
Moral philosophy, the individual and the future
Life through the kaleideologyscope
Must everything be reduced to political resentment?
Liberalism’s lion
Christopher Hitchens remains unforgettable
Calling time on closing times
Pubs should be allowed to stay open longer
Free speech for all
Everyone hurts when the state restricts our right to speak
The case for kids
Why children are a public good
Lucy Letby and the exploitation of tragedy
Must everything be absorbed by the discourse?
The rise and fall of Prigozhin
How Wagner came down to earth
The end of the line?
Arriving at our destination
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
Ministry of Silly Thoughts
Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people
Opposing big government means opposing climate change
We need a market-led course to net zero
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
Labour’s insecurity counsel
A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
