Butskellism
Politicians versus mandarins
Spats between governments and civil servants are inevitable when administrations have a radical agenda
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
Three pheasants, one Land Rover
Labour’s new war on pheasant shooting is about who gets to decide how England’s land is used
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was