Fountain Pens
Pen pusher
My fascination with fountain pens
A Christmas plea for pen and ink
In praise of the small features of civilisation
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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
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes