Defence Spending
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
War without arms
Labour’s welfare obsession is costing the UK hard military power
How pensions are disarming Britain
On defence investment, Conservatives must walk the walk
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Turning shares into swords
The Church doesn’t invest in defence companies, but it prays you continue to do so
Send the tools to finish the job
It is imperative that the West once again becomes “the great arsenal of democracy”
One cheer for Ben Wallace
The outgoing Defence Secretary’s record is thinner than one might think
Difficult questions on Ukraine
We must not shrink from reassessment
Many tanks
Ukraine needs the arms required to win
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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
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid