Mali
The bid to stabilise Mali
James Snell reports on the deployment of British Troops in Mali as a part of the UN’s mission to counter jihadist groups
France, Mali and military coups
French interventionism in Mali has fostered little stability
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
Are Jewish students really afraid of the Freedom of Speech Act?
Some of have raised concerns, yes, but generalisations are wrong and unhelpful
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Intellectual history, sneered at in Oxford 40 years ago, is all the rage there now
Reaping a bitter harvest
Labour are struggling to justify their own policies