Political Realism
Realism versus Restraint
Washington’s foreign policy arises from two impulses often in conflict with each other
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
How to avoid the Third World War
Tucker marries an English School insight with the thought of two giants of philosophy
The Realist bogeyman
Everyone likes to shoot the messenger and nobody likes to hear “I told you so”
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Reform should not abandon free markets
Nigel Farage should stick to his liberal guns against the forces of collectivism
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
In praise of Canary Wharf
Once dismissed as a sterile outpost, Canary Wharf has become one of Britain’s greatest urban success stories
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common