Islam
Paradise lost?
The decline of freedom in Malaysia
Israel alone?
The Middle East is entering a dangerous new period
Can we be heroes?
Cowardice is inescapable in British public life
Britain’s blasphemy laws
We must stand up to intimidation
Militantly waiting for the end of time
Sunni or Shia, Muslim or Christian, modern or pre-modern — messianism retains a potent attraction
The dilution of trauma
Exaggerating emotional struggles weakens our resilience
Stand with Salman Rushdie
There should be no doubt
The police are enabling Islamic intolerance
Where can we provoke if not at Speakers’ Corner?
Unhappy pilgrimage
The Church is on the move as Christians are “strategically driven” from their homes
Unholy politics and a Christian exodus
Middle Eastern Christians are facing the threat of extinction
Vanishing act
Jeremy Hunt did not, in fact, pull a rabbit out of his hat
Scratches in the stonework of history
A new history of graffiti and rebellion is less light and bawdy than one may have expected
Ukraine can still triumph
It needs, and deserves, Western patience and solidarity
British defence must be renewed
War may not be imminent but Britain must still be secure
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
The Age of Twee
Line up and clap for the NHS, wankpuffin
Dissent is not hatred
We must resist the idea that disagreement with modish beliefs is reducible to ill-feeling
Campus confidential
Inside the secret Cambridge societies hiding their unfashionable views
War destroys everything
Alex Garland’s Civil War is filled with terror and horror
The F-word
A serious accusation should be treated with appropriate seriousness
We must escape Subtopia
As Ian Nairn warned, British town planning has had a grim levelling effect on our urban and rural spaces
