Liberalism
Proud to be free?
Liberal Britain’s new blasphemy laws
The progressive war on sex
New norms around “consent” are aimed at destroying the miracle of intimacy
The victorious sign
What relationship should Christianity have with politics?
Unreal liberalism for an unreal world
Individualism looks very different to the lives it excludes and discards
The romance of nationalism
National Conservatives are reclaiming nationalism — but which nationalism?
The asexual lingerie model and other modern mysteries
Why sex-positivity is anti-sex
Christopher Hitchens: the last cool columnist
Ten years on from Hitchens’s death, the past seems more foreign than ever
Cruel to be kind
Validating everyone’s wishes leaves us prone to outbreaks of self-indulgence
Terror and its apologists
The liberal left’s excuses mask the real culprit behind terror attacks
Liberalism’s graveyard
Afghanistan is where ideologies go to die
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
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion