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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation