James O’Brien
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Voters deserve to know what is happening in their country
Journalism should be about revealing what is true — not obscuring it
A left-wing Limbaugh
James O’Brien has become a part of what he loathes
Black lives matter
Knife crime is predominantly black on black, so don’t hold the police back
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable