Decline of Rome
Murder, incest — a limping collapse
Inquests aimed at cooling tempers became trials of strength, fanning the flames of partisan politics
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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 book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
This apology for a political comedy
Amusing as a war crimes trial, and seems to last twice as long
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
Iran has been fatally misunderstood
The US and Israel were foolish to imagine that the Iranians would crumble
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong