Institutions
Do we still live in a democracy?
Elections alone don’t make a democracy. Britain’s institutions are under strain, and trust in the state is slipping
The transcendent in the mundane
Religion cannot be abstracted from institutional life
Conservatives can no longer trust institutions
Institutions are only as effective as the people within them and the culture beyond them
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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
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
What is the CID for?
Zac Brettler’s short life and mysterious death
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses