An Englishman’s Home Is His Car Park: Slovenliness as a Way of Life
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
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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
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
Why the establishment hates X
It can be used to spread misinformation and abuse, yes, but it can also expose inconvenient facts
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
The end of encrypted Europe
Europe’s latest Chat Control may see child protection become a pretext for wider surveillance.
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves