Boarding Schools
Thin gruel theology
Apparently, thank heavens, being a Christian means all blame is external
The schools of hard knocks
Many boys suffered, but some carried their misery into the world of work
“Nympho” rides again
Mental housemistresses and banners displaying children in boaters
The quaintness of the campaign against public schools
The abuse was terrible but its relevance to modern politics is dubious
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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
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
The online life that steals your soul
Read this book and then stamp on your phone
The costs of telling the truth too late
The girl guiding decision is causing pain — so why do activists seek to prolong it?
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre