Integrated Review
The thinning khaki line
What does the defence command paper reveal about Britain’s priorities for its armed forces?
Realism and realities
What theory of geopolitics does the Integrated Review serve?
Britain should stand up to Mauritius
The British Government must make it clear that it will not allow a foreign country to threaten British citizens
Why Labour has the best history books
Labour continues to blunder down that long blind Blairite alleyway, unable to turn back or find an exit
Pen pusher
My fascination with fountain pens
Scarlet Blake is a man
Indulging the fantasies of violent criminals is endangering women
Justin’s dilemma
Spears got slutshamed; Timberlake was the stud
Cultural Christianity and the vulgar wisdom of memes
Dawkins is caught between the pure idea of rationalism, and the messy meme of cultural Christianity
Legal laughs
Legal “humour” is seldom more than mildly amusing
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
The reality of tobacco control
To have a law does not mean that it will be respected
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
Slavery did not create Britain’s wealth
A bogus narrative is obscuring history and diminishing our national pride
