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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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
A massive cross-party achievement
The new V&A East Museum has surpassed all expectations
The man who defied the ministry
Tom Rolt, whose rescue of the Talyllyn Railway provided a model of how we can stand up to the homogenistion of our culture
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration