Alfred Brendel
A fruitcake rather than an egghead
Somehow Alfred Brendel managed to appear both deadly serious and not serious at all
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Chopping The Onion
It is neither brave nor clever to portray dissenting women as insane
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change
Britain’s AI gamble reeks of desperation
The government is betting it all on AI — it could lose our trousers
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one