Harry Potter
The vanishing of the aspirational lower-middle class
A favourite punching bag of satirists was more noble and valuable than it seemed
Why so many Northerners?
Callously relegated to Norway in October, one should be “grateful for the fjords” apparently
Britain must escape the clutches of cringe
We have nothing to lose but our Paddington toys
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
“You’re a fella, Harry”
In praise of responsible adults
Publishing needs JK Rowling to be a monster
The facts are irrelevant
Braving the goblet of fire
Nick Cohen salutes J.K. Rowling, whose latest work reflects her burning sense of justice and refusal to take the easy route
JK Rowling and the Wardens of Woke
The younger Harry Potter stars made their disagreement abundantly clear with the woman who made them
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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
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub