Insult for its own sake is childish and banal, but the ability to strongly criticise any creed is absolutely vital in a healthy democracy

The Home Secretary ought to be up to the job

Recording guidelines are obscuring rather than clarifying the real extent of Covid’s impact on excess deaths

Sir Roger Scruton moved through personal tragedy and objective philosophy to justify wine as a “social intoxicant”

The Arab Spring didn’t amount to much, but when the US killed Soleimani last year it was a unexpectedly positive counterpoint

There is a great deal to look forward to this year, and hopefully not that much to dread

On the first anniversary of his death, Scruton’s literary executor says that it is a ‘travesty of the truth’ to think that Scruton joined the ranks of those evangelical atheists

Hayek suggested a society which sacrificed liberty for security would gradually submit itself to authoritarian control

With Reform UK and Alliance for Unity, five pro-union parties are lining-up to fight the SNP – and each other.

I feel like you’re being sabotaged by your inner saboteur