Diaries
A chip on his shoulder
The diaries of Chips Channon
In defence of reading diaries
We experience people at their most depressed and their most joyful; their most selfish and their most generous
Perceptive, witty and sure of himself
Beyond the embellishments of Alan Duncan’s private diaries lies a body of work making serious points about the role of parliament
World-class snob, first-class diarist
Andrew Roberts says that in these diaries, Channon takes snobbery to a truly pathological level
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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
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership