Edward Said
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Et tu, Labour?
The betrayal of language learning
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Rendering the word of God in English
500 years ago, William Tyndale published his groundbreaking New Testament translation
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
The government must defuse a legal time bomb
Countries of the “Global South” could sue the UK over greenhouse gas emissions
French lessons for Farage
Following the Makerfield defeat, Reform should look across the channel to Rassemblement National for strategies