Morality
Jane’s profound piety
Jeremy Black reviews Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics, by Tom Keymer
The language of Conservative priorities
Why does Boris want marriage to be a contract-at-will?
The Idea of a twenty-first century University
Newman’s Idea of The University imagined by Jeremy Black and William Gibson for the modern world
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Three pheasants, one Land Rover
Labour’s new war on pheasant shooting is about who gets to decide how England’s land is used
How procedure is enabling petty criminals
We should support workers who confront criminals
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
Will capitalism end capitalism?
Artificial intelligence is perverting the logic of our economic and political systems
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
Assisted suicide has been dealt a fatal blow
The Scottish Parliament arrived at the right decision. Westminster should do the same