anxiety
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Letting go for God
Selfhood begins with a walking away
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive