Liberalism
Beating the retreat
Wokeness represents an autoimmune disorder of liberalism itself
Still living in MacIntyre’s world
The philosopher who diagnosed liberalism’s contradictions
Thoughts on a crisis
A vision of a salvageable democracy built squarely on an orthodox account of the supremacy of political institutions
Welcome to the jungle
It’s Bezos’s market, you’re just living in it
British politicians are turning me into a libertarian
Their incompetence and presumptuousness is the best advert individualists have
No Kemi, liberalism hasn’t been hacked
Badenoch’s party brought us to this point. It was no accident
Badenoch’s “muscular liberalism” is a non-starter
The Conservative leader sounds hopelessly out of touch
Donald Trump and the age of sovereign internationalism
We are entering a new age of great power competition
November Letters
Aiming for the rescue and rebuilding of liberal capitalism
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
Most Read
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
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages