Artillery Row
A shot of Christmas spirit
The Old Vic’s “A Christmas Carol” is properly affecting
The dismal state of British defence
The UK’s defence strategy is a combination of hope and vibes
British libel laws are a SLAPP in the face to press freedom
We need major liberalisation of libel law
Can Nigel Farage do his job?
Against the grim passivity of British politics
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
An open letter against assisted dying
118 academics oppose the Leadbeater Bill
Why was a foreign rapist in Britain?
The sad background to a horrific case
Assisted dying and the suicidal
The culture around assisted dying could aggravate the thoughts of the suicidal
Religion is here to stay
A new spirit of confidence and fearlessness characterises those who continue to believe
The sorry strategy
Reparations are a deeply dangerous strategy in the carnivorous world of geopolitics
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Running out of autobahn
Beijing’s manufacturing strategy is colliding with Europe’s self-inflicted industrial weaknesses
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Hurty words
Robust debate is to be celebrated, not condemned
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette