British Politics
The follies of human quantitative easing
British politicians have made a fatal commitment to human quantitative easing
A time for restoration
An interview with David Starkey
The poverty of “Singapore-on-Thames”
Britain can take inspiration from other countries but it cannot merely imitate them
Go west
Rishi has been a bit down lately
Politics with the depth of a puddle
A month of politically-minded podcasts has reached its exhausting apogee
Time for realpolitik in Israel
Britain’s foreign policy in the Middle East should put British interests first
Don’t ban anti-Israel marches
Principled and pragmatic arguments for prohibition are weak
Liz Truss was right but naive
She grasped the scale of Britain’s plight but misunderstood the nature of power
Could Britain have a coherent written constitution?
It seems probable that it would have a Christianity-shaped hole at its core
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
The triumph of electoral sectarianism
Votes on the basis of ethnic identity are reshaping British politics
Nature neglected
In this election green policy only get airtime when it can be linked to jobs
Failing universities
What has gone wrong in British higher education?
Reject Naominomics
Ideas like Naomi Klein’s are bad for the economy (and for the environment)
Steering clear of titfer tat
We now are seeing the first flowering of a head-dress renaissance
Enough with the bigotry mind-reading
Why do people insist on jumping to the least generous interpretation possible?
Tee is for trend
Banish your inner Ted with a t-shirt
The incarnation of vice
Sex, gypsies, smoking, smugglers, sex, bullfighting, murder, and did we mention…sex?
July letters
Tory trans activists and franchise folly
Flawed paean to a heartless auteur
A lack of empathy goes to the hollowness at the heart of so many Kubrick movies
Sunak of many colours
He has become all things to all people, that he might save some seats
