George Bush
No, Cheney was not the boss of Bush
The idea that the War on Terror was the work of a hardline cabal is too simplistic
Guardians of our culture
Conservative America still vibrantly upholds the cause of Western civilisation
Christopher Hitchens: the last cool columnist
Ten years on from Hitchens’s death, the past seems more foreign than ever
9/11 confidential
This 9/11 documentary gained extraordinary access to the key decision makers, deploying the material with skill and confidence
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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
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
