Disaster
When the Nazis occupied Britain
When necessary engagement becomes collaboration is an unspoken question
A California nightmare
What is the future of the Golden State?
A successful account of the disastrous
When the Dust Settles is a record of an achingly human response to chaos and emergency
The calamitous course of history
Reading Doom might not save us, but it leaves us with a better appreciation of the complex politics of catastrophe
Anatomy of disaster
The psychology of political incompetence is brought out well in Niall Ferguson’s Doom
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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
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
Are automated auctions on the way?
New technology has a double edge
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic