Columns
The problem of the poor…
Titania McGrath’s considers the working class
The real Amis?
X.Trapnel on the book world’s latest guessing game
Manufacturing Lies
Factories of elite opinion like the Economist will fail if they produce shoddy goods
Squalid optimist
The PM’s mendacity about the sunlit uplands of New Model Britain is psychotic
A doctor’s rites
Theodore Dalrymple reveals how the choice of words in medical obituaries are important
The UK’s four nations can be reinvented and flourish
The Anglo-British belief in national self-government could forge a new path
A year to forget, already
Who will stand up to the stupidity of the electorate?
A philosopher of deeds
Roger Scruton was a doer as well as a thinker
The International Criminal Court is a mess
If the ICC had brought more warlords to justice, it might have earned our respect
Tom’s ghostly debut
X.Trapnel on the latest publishing politics
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
How Donald Trump betrayed himself
President Trump has forgotten what made him successful in the first place
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss