Artillery Row
What is Britain getting into in Yemen?
We have seen too many disastrous interventions to be confident now
Who will be Macron’s dauphin?
And what does it mean to be the heir to Macronism anyway
BDS is a mask for hate
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement denies the right of Israel to exist, and public bodies have no business supporting it
The Stratford MSG Sphere would have been a dystopian nightmare
Light pollution is not a fringe issue and we need to reconnect to the night sky
We have to be more precise about progress
What sort of progress do we want, and how are we going to get it?
Sadiq Khan is blind to unromantic disadvantages
London travel schemes are excluding the disabled and pro-diversity officials do not seem to care
Advance, legionaries
The Romans and the development of British roads
The revised Scottish Prison Service transgender prisoner policy is not fit for purpose
Any work for bringing it into force should be stopped
Hating women is not “trad”
Men and women have to work together for conservative goals to be achieved
The failure of Anglican managerialism
The decline in church attendance is a symptom of deeper problems than poor management
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Middle management in the Middle East
The war against Iran has emphasised the importance of deep leadership
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall