Jordan
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Security is important — but you often have to keep a very close eye on the guards
Jordan: The coup that wasn’t
The strength of Jordan’s Hashemite monarchy is a precious thing — and one which only gets its due in rare moments of turmoil
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Will capitalism end capitalism?
Artificial intelligence is perverting the logic of our economic and political systems
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?