Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson’s luxury beliefs
Attempts to build a new ideological project in foreign policy are less than convincing
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
Roger Scruton finally makes his mark on Oxford
Niall Ferguson opens Roger Scruton memorial lecture series
The calamitous course of history
Reading Doom might not save us, but it leaves us with a better appreciation of the complex politics of catastrophe
Anatomy of disaster
The psychology of political incompetence is brought out well in Niall Ferguson’s Doom
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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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide