Lying
Britain is drowning in a sea of bad law
The Public Office (Accountability) Bill will accomplish nothing
Disturbed by blurbs
On the ethics of literary marketing
On Lying
The line between dishonesty and stupidity can be difficult to spot
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
Iran has been fatally misunderstood
The US and Israel were foolish to imagine that the Iranians would crumble
UnappEaling comedy
A “loose, loose reimagining” of Kind Hearts And Coronets does not really work
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)