John Kirby
Giving peace a chance
War has had its opportunity, and it has failed
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
How to get filthy wrong
Gary Stevenson has replaced economics with politics, and the results speak for themselves
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Wit as well as social conscience
Avril Quartet: Claires Obscures (Etcetera)
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
The glories of front gardens
People who pave over gardens have hearts of stone
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium