Everyday Lies
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
Killed, not “neutralised”
“neutralise”
“Senseless”
Loose talk, as they used to say in the war, costs lives
Working people
The latest innovation of the nomenklatura class and their apparatchik subordinates
The meaning of “indigenous”
The old imperial habit rises again: dividing the world into the natives and us
Equity for all
With all this do-goodery, it is a wonder that the company has time for anything else
Green claims
An envelope more hectoring than election propaganda
“It’s official”
The British have become a nation of mental serfs
A land fit for apparatchiks
The government is “freeing up” billions of pounds to invest in the future of the Labour
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Bring back borstals
Antisocial teenagers need structure and discipline before it is too late
The malignant mediocrity of managerialism
A country ruled by lawyers and HR managers will be culturally desiccated and politically sclerotic
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
The American chaos machine
The United States’s current aggressive expansionism and domestic strife are an intrinsic part of its national character
Italian elegance
Italian Perspectives (Pentatone)
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art