Perry Worsthorne
Elegant defender of lost causes
Daniel Johnson recalls the colourful life of Sir Peregrine Worsthorne
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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 goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
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
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
AI and the Jefferson Option
Eighteenth-century advice on surviving the AI apocalypse
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport