Optimism
Reasons to be cheerful
A pessimist tries to summon up Christmas cheer
The best we can hope for
Brilliant psychologist Daniel Kahneman died this year
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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
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
What is the CID for?
Zac Brettler’s short life and mysterious death
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration