Adrian Wooldridge
Making the case for liberalism
Wooldridge’s polemic draws together the disparate traditions of liberal thought and action
In praise of meritocracy
Grammar schools, Tony Crosland and the Encounter club
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
How to save your parish church
Be the Church you want to see in the world
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK