Language
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Denial or confession?
Mandelson is a true prince of the logocracy, whose greatest skill was, and still is, the emptying of language of fixed meaning
States of uncertainty
How should we define “Central Europe?”
No word should be inherently unsayable
Context matters — whatever the language police might say
Why many Ukrainians have stopped speaking Russian
Ukraine’s culture, as well as its people and land, needs defending
Working people
The latest innovation of the nomenklatura class and their apparatchik subordinates
How speech flowered from an ancient root
Connective tissue between Classical Western and Indian languages
Give this word a miss
We should be respectful enough to use appropriate honorifics
This show has said it all before
Not all bad, but the tone is too breezy
A rare victory for proportion
The connotations of words can depend on their context, numpties
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
Carl Schmitt in Miami
Can Marco Rubio establish a new American system in Latin America?
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules