Elites
Searching for a radical alternative
Two new titles join a burgeoning chorus of populist lament
Hive collapse
The new elites have ruined everything. Now they’re destroying themselves
The anatomy of oikophobia
A cyclical view of history exposes Western self-contempt
The new Christo-elitism
On the dangers of intra-religious alienation
Bring back plain English
Most literary criticism is don addressing don, in a style designed to exclude ordinary people
Has Britain gone mad?
The myth of fighting conspiracy theories can be as comforting as the real thing
The failure of normative power
You can’t always legislate around disagreement
The suffocating blandness of elite fashion
Leaders should dress like leaders
The men who hate cars
I’ve had enough of White Paper Mansplainers
The BBC has a “poor people” problem
The broadcaster is obsessed with trying to reach an audience it doesn’t understand
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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
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
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Keir has my complete backing – Wes