Artillery Row
Allocating blame in the name of climate change
Dwelling on the question of historical responsibility for climate change helps no one
The multi-matrixed revolutions
Predictions of a new Cold War understate the complexity of the future
Ending Britain’s childcare arms race
What is the end goal of extending childcare provision?
Superficial pleasures
A te, Puccini (Signum)
The imagination of Ensor
The great Belgian painter could enliven the most mundane scenes
Year of the blackpill
Farewell to 2023 — a year for losing hope
They, Claudius
It is folly to project modish contemporary norms backwards
Ending the war in Palestine
It will take imagination and cooperation to secure a lasting peace
Britain is a multicultural outlier in Europe
Europe’s belated rightwards drift is leaving the British behind
Where are the young gender critical feminists?
Young people need to stand up for women’s rights before it is too late
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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
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)