Jon Ronson
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures