Burns Night
Crashed and Burnsed
ASH Smyth gives a poetically bad speech at the Galle Literary Festival for the Caledonian Society of Sri Lanka
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
Over the line
No one should discipline children for asking honest questions or telling the truth
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
Ministry of Silly Thoughts
Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
Towards a shared Englishness
There is a third way between civic nationalism and ethno-nationalism
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind