Book Review
King Charles’s ruthless revenge
Whilst the traitors are swiftly rounded up and dispatched, a handful remain at large
Violence against history
An aggressively one-sided book
The upside of the bubonic plague
Historian James Belich has no truck with the plague deniers
How Britain fell out of love with Boris
The story of a shy extrovert, an unprincipled believer, a depressive funster
Fruits of sex
Rediscovering the telos of gender
Stability and sensibility
Art between the wars
The distinctiveness of human aggression
A review of The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution by Richard Wrangham
A Yiddish colossus
Isaac Bashevis Singer would never have submitted to today’s ideological edicts
A cautionary tale
The lot of the writer today is one of insecurity, wounded pride and dwindling returns
The “Popish brat of France” reassessed
Leanda de Lisle triumphs where her subject could not
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
The shadow of the thorn tree
Christian culture must combine tradition and modernity
Giles Treadwell
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