Catherine Clarke
Lyrical wormholes into the past
A powerful evangelist for poetry, without a coherent proposition about English identity
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
The online life that steals your soul
Read this book and then stamp on your phone
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law
Punishing anyone before they have even been convicted of anything makes me uneasy
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid