Ideology
In defence of Blue Labour
It might be old-fashioned and romantic but it has been ahead of the times
The unbearable denseness of boomers
Self-styled defenders of liberal democracy cannot tolerate disagreement or even discontent
British politicians are turning me into a libertarian
Their incompetence and presumptuousness is the best advert individualists have
Total eclipse of the art?
Activistic artists and curators are making art a niche political endeavour
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
“Social justice” is damaging education
Teaching is in danger of degenerating into indoctrination
The scourge of EDI
It is patronising, divisive and anti-meritocratic
The final death of left v. right?
Old political categories are losing their value
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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
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
The shadow of the thorn tree
Christian culture must combine tradition and modernity
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion