Gerard Batten
Making plans for Nigel
Culture wars may give Nigel Farage another chance to ambush the Conservatives
Conservatives can no longer trust institutions
Institutions are only as effective as the people within them and the culture beyond them
Israel, the ICJ and the plausibility of genocide
Commentators are misunderstanding the provisional measures of the International Court of Justice
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
An abuser hiding in plain sight
There was shock when a feted theatre director turned out to be a paedophile who collected child rape porn but were the clues there all along?
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
We can’t even give them away
Let’s not pretend we have sovereignty over the Chagos Islands
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
Taking the liberal mask off prohibition
The case for the Tobacco and Vapes Bill is morally and economically unsound
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
