Columns
See, the conqu’ring hero comes – to be ridiculed by vegans
A Procrustean bed of critical theory is examining a British military hero – with predictable results
Unfixing Parliament
The governent’s attempt to regain the right to call an election is problematic
Biden’s brave new world
As we move into 2021, Biden’s message resounds throughout our new woke empire
Plague and pestilence
Covid-19 has reawakened the medieval superstition that bad things happen to bad people
Diego Maradona was not a victim
We have no sense of the tragic, only of victimhood, says Theodore Dalrymple
Power to the pigs and les keufs
France is competing with the UK to be every bit as draconian and liberty-infringing
Unproductive investment
Rishi Sunak boasts a hugerise in public spending. That must mean big tax increases
Queer as a Chocolate Orange
Dominic Green takes us through the history of the word “Queer”
It’s all a conspiracy
It’s not fair that Remain lost or that Trump won, once. These things are unconscionable and therefore diabolical
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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 do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
The great American dream
Beware the lure of the vast US market
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature