Clerical Bureaucracy
The ridiculous process of finding a new head of the CofE
The last regime handed the church over wholesale to the middle managers
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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
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area