Goals
Self-help with Samuel Johnson
Improving ourselves takes good principles, not mere goals
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
An artist at the assizes
Cyril Hare was that rara avis: a circuit judge who could write like an angel
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Badenoch’s “muscular liberalism” is a non-starter
The Conservative leader sounds hopelessly out of touch
A festival of losing
Will the Republic of Ireland ever face up to its problems?
The wrongs of Proudman
Criticism does not amount to discrimination or abuse
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Marble run
Let’s give up the Elgin Marbles, but not to Athens
Labour’s inaction on religious persecution
The Freedom of Religion or Belief brief is simply being ignored by the government
