India
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
The China panic and the Indian fact
The debate over the Chagos Islands has been clouded by fantasy about Beijing, obscuring the far more consequential role of New Delhi
Thangam Debbonaire and the curse of slop history
History is a cudgel in the hands of opportunistic ideologues
The ancient pull of troubled waters
Would rivers be better treated by man if they are given legal or spiritual “rights”?
An India-Pakistan conflict has huge implications for Britain
Conflict could spill out onto British streets
The India delusion
It is a mistake to think that Modi’s India is a natural ally
The myth of an extractive empire
Oxfam’s attack on the British Raj is historically and economically confused
The government must stand up to India on immigration
An exemption from National Insurance contributions would be intolerable
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
Manifestos, multiculturalism and the British millet system
Competing communitarian manifestos provide a dark glimpse into Britain’s future
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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
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
Carl Schmitt in Miami
Can Marco Rubio establish a new American system in Latin America?
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules