Dissidents
How one Egyptian activist accidentally exposed the British establishment
Alaa Abd El-Fattah is a symptom of the problem more than he is the problem
Oikophobia in excelsis
Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s case has exposed the hollow priorities of our political and cultural elites
Tristram and the tyrants
Laurence Sterne’s 250-year-old masterpiece is a radical, riotous celebration of liberty loathed by both Nazis and communists
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The state enablers of the Stade shooting
A fatal shooting in Germany illuminated more than one man
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Sex, success and failure
Sarah Ditum talks with songwriter Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
The government must defuse a legal time bomb
Countries of the “Global South” could sue the UK over greenhouse gas emissions
Hurty words
Robust debate is to be celebrated, not condemned
Ed Miliband is a bad environmentalist
He has put virtue signalling before effectiveness
Rendering the word of God in English
500 years ago, William Tyndale published his groundbreaking New Testament translation
Stumbling in the light
J.D. Vance has written a revealing book, for better and for worse
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette