Itamar Ben-Gvir
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains