Liberalism
Liberal Britain, not Little England
A post-Brexit Britain needs a foreign policy reset
A butterfly on an operating table
The abstraction of desire achieves nothing
Lockdown lessons
People should have been allowed to manage their own risk
Liberalism or else
The persecution of populists
The social self
Between individuals and communities
COVID Estrangement Syndrome
How to deal with creeping authoritarianism
A new test act?
In the new progressive ideology, there is no room for private religious convictions
A defence of capitalism
Rainer Zitelmann is a rare intellectual
Politics and culture are upstream of each other
On the false dichotomy between ideas and law
The soul of the hard hat
On competing visions of modern life
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
Perfect victims and a tale of two films
Don’t idealise victims — listen to them
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
The childishness of republicanism
Lidia Thorpe’s outburst is no reflection of the Australian attitudes towards the King
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
