Bamiyan Buddhas
Assaulting statues
The history of iconoclasm offers deeper lessons than are on display in the current statue-toppling craze
How Singapore gets things done
Singapore’s enlightened authoritarianism offers lessons about effective governance
Fighting lies with lies
What depths will we need to go to in order to tackle disinformation in our own time?
Why we all feel let down
Reflecting upon the corrosive power of disillusionment in politics and why our leaders are virtue vacuums who lack both competence and character
The Tories are victims of themselves
It is futile to complain about the consequences of laws they have established or upheld
Every argument for Israel
Answering the case against Israel point-by-point
Manifestos, multiculturalism and the British millet system
Competing communitarian manifestos provide a dark glimpse into Britain’s future
Rape crisis sabotage is a feature, not a bug, of trans activism
Trans activism is uniquely incompatible with anti-rape activism
The triumph of electoral sectarianism
Votes on the basis of ethnic identity are reshaping British politics
Anger and intuition
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String quartets 6, 13, 15 (Chandos)
Losing the battle, losing the war
The most pernicious effect of aligning art with political activism is that the distinction between the two is lost
Lettuce be, Liz
Liz Truss’s account of her woeful reign is packed with disingenuity and conceit