Essays
Writing outside the box
Elena Ferrante’s essay collection is an exploration of the delights and constraints of form
Despising all that they hold dear
Politics is but a subset; the true villain is belief, says Jonathon Green of Jonathan Meades’s new release
Intellectual Red Bull
László Földényi’s essays are a collection that will leave you feeling sharp and more cultured, says Tibor Fischer
Inveterate ignoramus
Christopher Bray reviews History and Imperialism by Louis Althusser
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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
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
French lessons for Farage
Following the Makerfield defeat, Reform should look across the channel to Rassemblement National for strategies
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Ed Miliband is a bad environmentalist
He has put virtue signalling before effectiveness
A bloodless account of blood-soaked times
Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece by Adrian Goldsworthy
