Czechoslovakia
What would Václav Havel have made of gender wars?
The former Czech president and playwright would have invited JK Rowling over for a beer
Derrida deconstructed
Derrida’s prose, which stops being turgid only in order to be turbid, is utterly incomprehensible
Smuggling Plato to Prague
Edward Lucas pays tribute to his father J.R. Lucas, Oxford philosopher and Cold War champion of the Czechs
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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
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate