Debate
Dancing around the issues
Who won? Certainly not the country
Attack is the best form of defence
The right cannot always be fighting a rearguard action in the culture wars
Entering the populist Pyongyang
Your correspondent watches the far right debate immigration — but will he go native?
Winning the argument, losing the country
Winning debates is all well and good, but it does not represent political progress
Against ideas
We have too many of them and they are not doing any good
What I learned from failing my PhD
Intellectual life shouldn’t be a combat sport
It’s not happening, and that’s why it’s good
The case for not Having A Normal One
Politics is not downstream from culture
Against Top Gear conservatism
Feelings don’t care about your facts
Politics is about emotions at least as much as about reason
Against a stone wall
The gender debate has already been won
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Online gambling isn’t bad for the economy
Is there an economic case for prohibitionism? No
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
Free speech defenders should practice what they preach
There should be no illiberal exception for anti-Zionist academics
Against autumn
Throw away your Pumpkin Spice Lattes
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
