Hope Not Hate
Night of the ghost fascism
If a far right protest is rumoured but no one turns up, can it be counter-protested?
Stop pampering the left’s attack dog
Hope not Hate are not a reliable judge of what constitutes dangerous extremism
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
JD Vance’s tech policy is a MAGA microcosm
Does JD Vance hope to restore the Jeffersonian tradition of freedom?
Ringo Starr
The man cruelly mocked as “not even the best drummer in The Beatles” must be the most underrated musician of all time
Lawless and disordered
British police and courts increasingly struggle to maintain public order
On the death of pets
It is not losing a human, but it is losing a loved one
How the West fell out of love with mass migration
Restrictionist opinion is breaking through the establishment cordon sanitaire
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
A spy’s afterlife
John le Carré’s work and life still haunt British culture
Perfect victims and a tale of two films
Don’t idealise victims — listen to them
Anatomy of a populist cynic
As Spain’s national-conservatives get outflanked by “Alvise”, Europe’s “new right” would do well to watch the fringes, too
Greeks bearing gifts
This wine nation has more to offer than retsina
