Crises
Inescapable crisis
Have our worn-out imaginations reached their limits?
Back to the 70s? If only…
Britain is in far worse trouble than we were 40 years ago
Petrol panic 2021
The petrol shortage could have been avoided if petrol stations had raised their prices
Controlling crises
How do governments of past, present, national and international deal with crises?
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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
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent