Meritocracy
Abigail Lamb Festival Fodder
Disaster strikes at the literary festival
In praise of meritocracy
Grammar schools, Tony Crosland and the Encounter club
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Green eggs and flam
A fine way to make herbes omelette
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad