Jeremy Irons
Pirate of the Caribbean
The world of cruise ship entertainment was traditionally the domain of the middle-ranking theatrical
Where there’s a Will…
If plum roles started being handed out on the random basis of “artistic merit”, anarchy would surely reign…
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
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 strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
We’ve had enough agitslop
British TV drama has become an embarrassing display of liberal neuroses
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
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 Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them