Political Correctness
Rabble-rouser in chief
Our increasingly polarised and angry age wants not entertainment, but preachers
On the side of Engels
Suffocated by a neurotic with-us-or-against-us mindset, the huddled masses of today’s Left brook no dissent
Lost for words
Now the Ministry of Defence agrees that not all women are female
When comedy goes right, it’s very wrong
The Goes Wrong Show expertly mines hilarity through disaster
Boris Bunter
Is our Prime Minister the Fat Owl of the Government?
The gift and curse of language
It separates us from the animals – and the angels
WHO knows best
Why are we confusing ourselves with greek variant names?
He’s behind you!
Turn again, Detective Inspector Hathaway
In Praise of Plod
How our police lost their way, and why they’re still better than the alternative
Enemy of orthodoxy
Christopher Silvester reviews Groupthink: A Study in Self-Delusion, By Christopher Booker
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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
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
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
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?