Liberalism
The myth of “muscular liberalism”
Yesterday’s men lament the symptoms of societal dysfunction while ignoring the conditions that cause them
Why cousin marriage endures
Opposing cultural relativism is no excuse for cultural ignorance
Hey, Foreign Office, leave Slovakia alone
The UK’s activist foreign policy has been unmasked in Slovakia
The liberal centre has run out of ideas on immigration
The case for the status quo on mass migration has been comprehensively refuted
Britain’s elite bacchanalia
A rebellious atmosphere pervaded the Financial Times Weekend Festival
The taming of Emmanuel Macron
The French president was once a bold reformer. What went wrong?
What did the Tory wets expect?
The Sensibles should reassess how sensible they have actually been
The doctors’ danse macabre
Assisted suicide is not enlightened but a step towards a new dark age
Right-wingers must oppose envy itself
The moral premises of collectivism, and not just its consequences, should be resisted
Is woke really dead?
Those who are “woke” claim to be liberal, yet Doyle clearly illustrates they are the opposite
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
Going for Broke
It’s that time of year to publicly humiliate oneself with Cheltenham tips
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
What Louis Theroux ignores
Pea-brained influencers make for an easier target than Islamic misogyny
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
Why we love pubs
Politicians are squeezing pubs out of existence without understanding why they matter
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation