Liberalism
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
All sweetness and light
Two hundred years after his birth, critic and poet Matthew Arnold still has much to teach conservatives
Those new puritans
A righteous dissection of Poundland post-structuralists
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
UnappEaling comedy
A “loose, loose reimagining” of Kind Hearts And Coronets does not really work
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Cofnas, Cambridge and academic freedom
Truly provocative ideas are still unwelcome in our universities
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
Sundown on Sandown
How can we save British seaside towns?