journalists
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
Are the grown ups really back in charge?
Centrist commentators are wallowing in limp clichés instead of asking serious questions about policy
Making a miserable meal of mythbusting
The writing is laced with the sins of myth-making: boring, trite, incoherent, lazy and unfunny
The age of the news influencer
TikTok reveals a broader existential crisis facing the media and our consumption of the news
Attack of the Hydies
How the Tillies and the Lillies are transforming right-wing newsrooms
When journalists self-censor
The media should report the news whomever it inconveniences
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
William Warham
A champion of the English Church unfairly eclipsed by his great rivals Wolsey, Cranmer and Cromwell
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
Why has Tehran released Toomaj Salehi?
The regime is said to be split over whether to target high-profile protesters
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
