Bashar al-Assad
How the fall of Assad has undermined Putin
He is struggling in Ukraine and he has now failed in Syria
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
Syria’s civil war 10 years on
Syria’s war has licensed this century’s worst growth in violent depravity – and it shows no sign of ending soon
Endless tragedy of blood and sand
Syria’s civil war is the latest grisly chapter in more than a millennium of conflict
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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
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
We need a loud revival
The dream of a “quiet revival” always misunderstood the problem faced by British Christians