Artillery Row
For Hume the bell tolls
Civil debate? A miracle
Obstacle courts
Who benefited from prolonging the Battersbee case?
Sinicizing the CCP
Xi Jinping’s cynical use of Confucius
Party poppers
Can liberal philosophers be used to justify censorship?
Have the Tories forgotten Northern Ireland?
Its problems have not gone away
Seven years in China
COVID, nationalism and Beijing walls
What we don’t talk about when we don’t talk about death
Mourning and moving furniture
The post-liberal trap
The new communitarianism looks suspiciously like what we have already
Why are British politicians such utter bores?
Mediocre people for mediocre times
Feminists under fire
We defend women’s rights and get abuse from progressives
The Conservative betrayal of selective schooling
Grammar schools are great — but there are not enough of them
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
The “conversion therapy” ban still makes for bad law
Recent amendments have failed to answer serious concerns about its implications
The shadowy economics of fentanyl
One professor is investigating how the deadly drug trade works — and how it might be fought
What are our cathedrals for?
Changes to the management of cathedrals have obscured the very point of their existence
A sound of Rowling thunder
Scotland’s government and police seem determined to turn themselves into a laughing stock
The slick glide through the institutions
When values are outsourced to third-party organisations, everybody suffers
Apologies are useless without action
It is nice that Gillian Keegan has acknowledged reality, but it is not enough
Try Christianity
Reflecting on the cross, we find a truth that is often too easy to forget
March 2024: Letters to the Editor
Record-setting sons and founding fathers
Joe Biden needs a Reagan moment
It is time not just for strong words but for serious demands
