Parents
Let’s give parents back control
We need a more pluralistic childcare sector
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
Parents, not the state, should be responsible for children
What has happened to parents when kids cannot brush their teeth?
Have hope, have kids
How parenthood can steel us against stress and despair
What does surrogacy say about us?
We are putting the interests of adults above those of children
Arresting the fertility crisis
Britain needs more babies — and it is far from alone
Their transition too (w/ Emma B)
Children are not secondary characters in their parents’ story
Confected outrage doesn’t change the facts about the family
Why does British political debate often disregard children’s interests?
Holiday hoo-ha
The trauma of second-home envy
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
An idiot’s guide to promoting “public health” policies
How to make irrational authoritarian moralism sound like urgent common sense
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism