Iraq War
No, Cheney was not the boss of Bush
The idea that the War on Terror was the work of a hardline cabal is too simplistic
Dick Cheney was an architect of American decline
The former VP had a disastrous career
A hell of a movie
Warfare rejects the usual tropes of its genre
Liberalism’s lion
Christopher Hitchens remains unforgettable
Going to war
Iraq, Eric Ambler and me
Mission accomplished? (with Ben Sixsmith and Sebastian Milbank)
Assessing the Iraq War and its ongoing effects
Remembering Iraq
We still feel the consequences of that disastrous war
How were we so wrong?
The Iraq invasion was never more than folly
Why the liberal hawks rule the roost
Get ready for the next idiot crusade
A successful account of the disastrous
When the Dust Settles is a record of an achingly human response to chaos and emergency
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Kemi Badenoch was right about the chaos in Clapham
Rioting as entertainment is a First World phenomenon
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
What if the AI bubble bursts?
Arguing that an AI bubble is a good thing reeks of techno-optimist complacency
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries