On Television
Pure gold among the C4 dross
Adam LeBor strikes television gold
She’s not the messiah…
Watching Greta Thunberg and the hysterical devotion she arouses, I am reminded of Judaism’s best-known self-styled redeemer
Manners maketh answers
Rudeness does not make for good television
Ulster’s deadly web
What if one of the most useful British agents inside the IRA was also a mass murderer?
Dancing around the issues
Who won? Certainly not the country
The porn Olympics
Porn puts young men and women in a degrading race that most of them are doomed to lose — so why are athletes lending it credibility?
The way forward for conservatives
We must have bold politicians who really believe in the things they promise
Newspeak
Language, landscapes and level crossings — is there nothing we can’t diversify, if we only dare to try?
Skin-walkers of the state
How absolute power lurks within liberalism
No lessons learned from lockdown
Despite all the nuance and retrospective moderation, the Covid inquiry leaves us no closer confronting the failures of technocracy
The pain of Sinn Fein
How has support for the party fallen so dramatically?
Yachts wrong with the world
Donald Trump, whiteness, superyachts and other evils
You can’t legislate away hatred
Don’t just do something, stand there
Will Starmer suppress dissent?
The riots should not be an excuse for a broader assault on civil liberties
