Authoritarianism
Do you feel in control?
Seven years on from the Brexit vote, it is hard to feel independent
See it. Say it. Sod off!
Against the naggy state
The making of a modern prophet
Taylor’s impressive second biography of Orwell is more than justified
The letters of the law
When did we delude ourselves that offence should be a crime?
COVID Estrangement Syndrome
How to deal with creeping authoritarianism
The police have a posting problem
Social media can create institutional damage
The meaning of Jacinda Ardern
Expect soggy authoritarianism from elite darlings
Reviving the inner anarchist
A new series shows Britain sliding into authoritarianism. Sound familiar?
The dictionary of the demagogues
In the dictionary of the demagogues there is only a single word: obey
A flawed analysis on the rise of transnational authoritarianism
György Schöpflin on Anne Applebaum’s Twilight of Democracy
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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
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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
The value of social value
Social value requirements have made public procurement more expensive, more bureaucratic and harder for smaller firms to compete
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism