International Law
Obstacle courts
Who benefited from prolonging the Battersbee case?
Creative ambiguity in a hall of mirrors
Are the mixed messages of the Internal Market Bill accident or design?
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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
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
What makes an American?
What characterises a US citizen in the 21st century, beyond abiding by the country’s laws and supporting its constitution?
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade