Liberalism
Liberals aren’t their own worst enemies
Why do so many Western liberals behave as if they agree with Putin’s critique of Western liberalism?
Germany’s Red Army Faction
Ominous parallels between 1970s West Germany and Britain today
What the Dickens!
150 years since Dickens’s death, Alexander Larman evaluates the memorialised writer’s questionable politics
How to Climb the Academic Pole
Ambitious young academics see the lecture hall and research laboratory as a shackle
The flaws of liberalism
On a range of issues liberal politicians pursued policies opposed by voters
Enemy of orthodoxy
Christopher Silvester reviews Groupthink: A Study in Self-Delusion, By Christopher Booker
What is the future of liberalism in Britain?
And what is the relationship between war and the state? With Nick Timothy and Jeremy Black
Private Education and Public Benefit
Why private schools must leave liberalism in the dustbin
Liberalism: a bad idea and how to cope with it
The piecemeal constitutional “reforms” of the last 20 years fall on the liberal side and the results have been predictably disastrous
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
You can’t judge a book by its cover
All novels should be like this: stripped of the necessary but boring connective tissue
In praise of centibillionaires
When people are free to make a lot of money from new businesses, everybody wins
Ridiculous research and irate academics (w/ Charlotte Gill)
Do we have the right to debate where our taxes are going?
The sacred and the profane
Allowing a “Rave in the Nave” in Canterbury Cathedral was a regrettable error of judgement
There is no conservative case for Keir Starmer
Despairing at the Tories is understandable, but the opposition of your opposition is not your ally
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
The arts are under threat in Scotland
New legislation endangers freedom, but the arts have been enabling its suppression for some time
In the name of God, lead
The Prime Minister appears terrified of making a stand against racism in his own party
The Foreign Office should be rooted in the past
Who and what is it for, if not the British people, and our history and culture?
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
