British Politics
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
When violence is its own reward
How do we deal with people who kill for the sake of killing?
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley