British Politics
Britain is a multicultural outlier in Europe
Europe’s belated rightwards drift is leaving the British behind
Why conservatism is rational
Conservatives should take pride in the rationality of their reasoning
British politics needs more Dominic Cummingses
You don’t have to like him, but he got things done
The unmaking of the Athenaeum
The venerable club is being spoiled by ideology
One of these books is worth reading …
Their rhetoric is unhinged, yet still they preen
Who even is “working class”?
Keir Starmer loves the term, but its substance is hard to define
The narcissism of the centrists
Why we should care less about Britain’s international standing
What’s in a collection of Ancient Greek sculptures’ name?
Should we refer to the Elgin Marbles or Parthenon Sculptures?
No place on the ARC for environmentalism
Stewardship of nature is a proper and appealing conservative cause
Homeostasis and the death of politics
Ignore feedback mechanisms at your peril
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
Where are the real statesmen?
Neither populists nor managerialists can rule
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
Recreational rioting
Is your right an existential threat to the nation or just blowing off steam? It depends on which flag you’re waving
Lawless and disordered
British police and courts increasingly struggle to maintain public order
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
The problem with precarity
Professional insecurity is harming workers and institutions alike
Don’t shoot the piano man
A silent film pianist was blacklisted from the BFI for supporting J.K. Rowling
Equality for some
Labour is continuing a misguided approach to DEI
Welcome to butter mountain
Labour’s extraordinary predicted majority might disappear almost as quickly as it arrives
