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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The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Assisted suicide has been dealt a fatal blow
The Scottish Parliament arrived at the right decision. Westminster should do the same
Is this the end of art?
Cultural renewal cannot simply chase demand
Givers and takers
Britain needs a fairer and more moral economic system
From Newton to newts
Putting badgers on the banknotes may avoid controversy, but it also avoids saying anything meaningful about Britain at all
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
Gas shock therapy
Ed Miliband must abandon his absurd and failing approach to energy
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets