Hope
Why we don’t police anti-Christian hate
Jewish and Muslim communities rightly get protections and attention from the government — but Christians are routinely overlooked
The dark threat of nitazenes
New opioids could pose a dramatic risk to British streets
Against stakeholderism
How ideas like “citizens’ assemblies” threaten democracy and effective policy-making
Against rights radicalism
A noble cause has mutated into an obstructive and anti-democratic force
There is no magic bullet for raising birth rates
A complex network of spiritual, cultural and economic factors underpin our fertility slump
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
Michael Gove’s convenient conversion won’t be enough
Britain’s economic dysfunction runs very deep indeed
Alcohol and Islam
An English novelist travels the Muslim world in search of a drink
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
The conspiracy illusion
Marianna Spring is looking at the finger, not the moon