D. L. Morhor – Michel Leiris and Francis Bacon, Paris, 1975 (photo courtesy of the Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation)
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The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
In praise of Elon Musk
He deserves respect for his defence of free expression online
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
