Encounter
In praise of meritocracy
Grammar schools, Tony Crosland and the Encounter club
Journal de combat of the Cold War
Encounter’s cultural importance far outweighed doubts about its shadowy funding
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning