British Politics
A tale of two conferences
The camp tone of the Reform conference masks genuine political seriousness
Reform should wake up from their American dream
Nigel Farage and friends should not adopt the Trump model
What a silly summer
Notes on people who really should have taken a holiday
Americans are unhealthily obsessed with British decline
Britain is in a bad state but some of its would-be friends are not helping
We are being governed by economic illiterates
The establishment does not understand the relationship between producers and consumers
Britain doesn’t need a strongman, it needs a spine
Politicians must stop delaying difficult decisions
The Conservatives must push what is falling
Kemi Badenoch has failed and it is time to move on
We need democracy, not the permanent bureaucracy
Civil servants are hampering the work of our elected representatives
Things can only get worse
There is a vast epistemic divide between those who experience decline, and those who don’t
Building a house on rock
Danny Kruger was right about Britain and Christianity
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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
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Truth and consequences for ministers
Former Ministers should be hauled back before MPs to justify their poor decisions
Who will pound longest?
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Facing demons
On the highs and lows of demonic infestation