Al Qaeda
Christopher Hitchens’s War
Commentators used 9/11 to keep framing the world as liberty versus totalitarianism
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki
Do hurt people hurt people?
This popular cliché attempts to be generous but ends up implying that victims are tainted
Jolyon’s little investigation
Questions have emerged about the founder of the Good Law Project’s approach to privacy
Budgets are overrated
Taxation and spending make little difference while Britain is unable to build
Why we should question the charge of “Islamophobia”
Valid criticism of beliefs and behaviour should not be equated with hateful bigotry
Scratches in the stonework of history
A new history of graffiti and rebellion is less light and bawdy than one may have expected
The emptiness of hype
A cultural legacy depends on far more than passing enthusiasm
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
Cultural Christianity and the vulgar wisdom of memes
Dawkins is caught between the pure idea of rationalism, and the messy meme of cultural Christianity
Dial S for screen time
These middle-class tweens being forbidden phones have had iPads since they were six
The left-wing defence of free speech
A recent book mounts a rare and powerful, if partly flawed, case for free expression from the Left
