Eugenics
“I’m afraid the news is not good …”
Our confidence in doctor diagnosis is sadly misplaced
The return of Spencerian liberalism
Richard Hanania is a figure of fun for many, but he represents a broader return to liberalism’s sinister origins
Cancelled by his college
How a panicking Cambridge institution obliterated the memory of one of its most famous sons
Eugenics and the intellectual left
To what extent should we separate an artist’s work from their period, character and ideas?
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He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
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
Murders for July
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Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
Supernatural delight
Religion cannot be reduced to dry abstractions
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border