Groupthink
The authoritarian groupthink of the left
How civil liberties organisations are more concerned with playing to their online audiences
Enemy of orthodoxy
Christopher Silvester reviews Groupthink: A Study in Self-Delusion, By Christopher Booker
A festival of losing
Will the Republic of Ireland ever face up to its problems?
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
The Windsor Framework must fall so that Brexit can live
The EU (Withdrawal Arrangements) Bill can restore the integrity of the United Kingdom
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored