Artillery Row
The hubris of humanists
There is no case for a broader ban on conversion therapy
Ubuntu and the path to progress
South Africa cannot continue down the road towards conflict
Alastair Campbell has it backwards on Ireland
The British government was too indulgent of Irish nationalists
The global surrogacy industry is proving feminists right
Women are being objectified and dehumanised in the name of progressivism
Who even is “working class”?
Keir Starmer loves the term, but its substance is hard to define
The myth of the emotionally unstable populist voter
It’s time that smug pseudo-centrists had more humility
Dressing well is good for the soul
Against the tyranny of scruffiness
Rickards remembered
A fine tribute to an industrious architectural eccentric
Christianity can only save Western Civilisation if it is true
Christ can transform lives in ways that institutions never can
Music of hypnotic power
Thomas Larcher: The Living Mountain (ECM New Series)
Against rights radicalism
A noble cause has mutated into an obstructive and anti-democratic force
Elgar’s excellence
Elgar: Symphonies (Halle/Oehms)
Why Reform is rubbish
Its top-heavy structure and patchy talent mean it cannot seize a massive opportunity
Sunak stumbles
The Prime Minister spent half of the afternoon trying to extract his foot from his mouth
The great immigration data disaster
Officials are deleting the data we need for a more sensible debate
Michael Gove’s new definition of “extremism” is extremely silly
We cannot define such a vague term with such vague terms
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
Preparing for the worst
How gender critical commentators are preparing for the impact of the Hate Crime and Public Order Act
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
Scullionbait 2: This Time It’s Intersectional
Academics are attacked and AI goes intersectional
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
