Leviathan
Liberalism’s obituarist
John Gray extends his dark critique of the modern world
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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
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
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
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
An idiot’s guide to promoting “public health” policies
How to make irrational authoritarian moralism sound like urgent common sense
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions