Lies
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
Britain is drowning in a sea of bad law
The Public Office (Accountability) Bill will accomplish nothing
The mendacity of managerialists
Liberal lies make a farce out of the high-minded critique of misinformation
Don’t ban political lying
There is no excuse for lies, but trying to ban them might do more harm than good
Live not by kayfabe
The dark side of professional wrestling is the dark side of institutional life
Clients
Value neutral language drains meaning from discourse
Repeatable offers
For a limited time only?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
We’ve had enough agitslop
British TV drama has become an embarrassing display of liberal neuroses
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall