Masks
You are being nudged
State-sponsored psychological manipulation is becoming ubiquitous
Why did behavioural scientists crave mask mandates?
The COVID pandemic exposed the nastiness of nudging
Banning masks from protests is a bad idea
Anonymity can be essential to dissent against tyrannical regimes
Faith Masks
The ideological significance of face masks, the new vestiture of the faithful
Saving Face
Like a home-made mask, our tolerance is wearing thin
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Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
Keeping us on message
The UK’s secret government propaganda unit dedicated to praising multiculturalism
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Jams, jellies and EU insanity
From toast to tungsten, the EU is an enemy of innovation