Alexis de Tocqueville
From America with Love
Europe deserved its drubbing from Vance, but freedom must go hand in hand with fraternity
Will TikTok take to Tocqueville?
Popular history can be more than everything ribald and rip-roaring and frenetic and fun
Frustrating life of a man of ideas
We remain interested in Tocqueville because of the power of his thought, not his life story
Fear, loathing and revolution
Was Alexis de Tocqueville the first social scientist?
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
The right moment?
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?
Critical briefing: EU-Taliban talks
As European governments harden their approach to migration, Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of negotiating directly with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Farage fumbles
“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read