Horace
The humanity of Horace
The wisdom of someone who has lived a little is at the heart of the verse of the ancient poet who was adopted as the mascot of the Enlightenment
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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
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history