Iraq
Hoary Rory
Rory Stewart is the hero of his own story
A hell of a movie
Warfare rejects the usual tropes of its genre
The American position in the Middle East courts peril
Keeping US troops in Iraq and Syria is too much of a gamble
What awaits the IDF
Memories of unforgiving urban combat in a tank
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
Unholy politics and a Christian exodus
Middle Eastern Christians are facing the threat of extinction
Iraq’s year of assassinations
Power operates within a militia movement in which no one is invulnerable
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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
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
Three pheasants, one Land Rover
Labour’s new war on pheasant shooting is about who gets to decide how England’s land is used
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall