Dictatorship
Ibrahim Traoré and the art of the paper coup
The Burkinabé dictator keeps facing coup attempts — or does he?
Don’t blame the internet for youthful disaffection
Material conditions are more to blame than social media
Death throes of a dictatorship?
Amid war and discontent, military rule in Myanmar is faltering
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
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
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Ring engagement
The Mash meets The Ring!
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
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Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair