Bureaucracy
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Let publishers publish
The protracted corporate decision-making process is stifling the books industry
The slow death of public spaces
Pointless regulations are sucking joy from British life
Chasing rainbows
Dissident civil servants have been risking their careers to fight a losing battle against burgeoning Whitehall wokery
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
An Athena SWANsong
The equalities scheme threatens the intellectual foundations of Irish institutions
The mate, mate, mate state
How managerialism absorbs masculinity
Is Britain closed for business?
New development is being strangled by red tape
Centrist Dadocracy
Rory Stewart thinks only he can save the nation
A little less conversation
The UK is drowning in discourse
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
The Democratic Party deserves Donald Trump
Its arrogance and complacency have been exposed
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
The West should stop indulging delusions on Ukraine
Ukraine cannot achieve its maximal goals
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
