Military
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
Can Europe stand up to Trump?
Trump’s strongman tactics have been enabled by European weakness
A non-fictional feast!
The best of military history from 2025
War with Russia is not inevitable
Our leaders should speak less loudly and build a bigger stick
The case for the Cadets
In an atomised society, structure and camaraderie can help young people
Talk of war is political performance art
The British establishment does not see war as a realistic prospect
Trump needs to get real(ist)
Military strength should be used as a deterrent rather than for reckless adventurism
How progressive authoritarianism is putting national security in jeopardy
The Government’s approach to the defence sector needs to protect our interests
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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
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth