Nigel Farage
Reform has a human capital problem
Why would talented and successful people be attracted to such a farce?
Kronsteen vs Blofeld
Blofeld has got messianic qualities. But I intended that as a compliment
The assassination of Rupert Lowe by the coward Nigel Farage
If it is to succeed, Reform has to be more than a cult of personality
The Apprentice
What’s Europe ever done for America?
It is not unpatriotic to question war
Old smears are being resurrected to silence dissent
Trump’s poodle
Nigel Farage is talking about Ukraine but talking to Washington
Is Nigel Farage growing up?
His response to Ukraine suggests that Reform are growing more professional
By the right, long march
How Reform can stand alone and seize the political advantage
Who do you think you are kidding?
All sides of parliament are still in the realm of comfortable fantasy
All aboard the good ship ARC
I leave the ARC a far happier animal than yesterday
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
Rendering the word of God in English
500 years ago, William Tyndale published his groundbreaking New Testament translation
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Equality of opportunity, and other bedtime stories
Britain cannot make progress if equality is its highest goal