Citizens’ Assemblies
The grim reality of a citizens’ assembly
A seemingly democratic initiative was nothing of the sort
Against stakeholderism
How ideas like “citizens’ assemblies” threaten democracy and effective policy-making
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
Ring engagement
The Mash meets The Ring!
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity