Douglas Murray
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
An unconvincing case for Israel
Murray always seem to frame the facts in a manner that is maximally sympathetic to Israel
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
Don’t worry, novelists are still envious and bitter
Unlike Douglas Murray, John Self thinks the satirical novel isn’t dead
September 2020: Letters to the Editor
The divisions between the ruling managerial class and the rest are a recipe for extremism
The post-Christian identity crisis
Three books portray a West unconscious of its past and uncertain of its future
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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
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define