Artillery Row
Where are the real statesmen?
Neither populists nor managerialists can rule
Labour’s economic plans are a disaster waiting to happen
They won’t save the planet and they won’t save the economy
Talk of the town
On the strangeness and variety of urban development
The pointlessness of pintlessness
There is no case for slashing the drink-driving limit
The ghosts of Tory past
The Conservatives are haunted by the spirits of the last two decades
Who hears the voiceless?
Leaving unborn children without legal protections would be an ethical disgrace
Labour’s looming constitutional vandalism
A Labour landslide will complete the Blairite destruction of Britain’s unique constitution
Just stop
A new wave of disruptive protest is openly criminal, yet is minimally policed. It is time to say enough — and ban them all
Defend Christian private schools
Keir Starmer’s tax raid would be bad for children, parents and the state
Nature neglected
In this election green policy only get airtime when it can be linked to jobs
Allyship on easy mode
The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
Against autumn
Throw away your Pumpkin Spice Lattes
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
