Jacinda Ardern
The meaning of Jacinda Ardern
Expect soggy authoritarianism from elite darlings
The veneration of Saint Jacinda
Ardern’s career is a foretaste of a quieter and less frightening world in which workplace feminism has triumphed
The cloak of woke
Are “progressive” leaders just canny politicians?
The good leader delusion
Woke leaders are able to disguise their more cynical realpolitik
New Zealand’s election & the nation’s mother
ACT’s former leader explains why in Saturday’s general election the free market party is likely to see its best ever result
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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
The shadow of the thorn tree
Christian culture must combine tradition and modernity
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia