Another World
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
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.
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world