Politics
Auf Wiedersehen, Britain
A German radio broadcaster on what he’s learnt about the British
There’s always hope
Union hacks never die, they just go into corporate comms
The simplest thing is difficult
Does Dominic Cummings know what he doesn’t know about Defence policy?
Pounding to nothing
Patrick Porter reviews The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, by John Bolton
What did Roger Scruton and Christopher Hitchens have in common?
Douglas Murray on the personal debt he owes to the two men he considers his literary mentors
Bishops’ different hymnsheet
The Church of England has worked to broaden its diversity of background, but its diversity of opinion has declined
Myths of the Prophet Max
Daniel Johnson on the life and work of Max Weber, whose controversial views on democracy still resonate today
Warming is not the only threat
Our response to Covid-19 has shown us that national security depends on more than tanks, planes and climate preparedness
A moral case for Universal Basic Income
A neoliberal argument for UBI based on individual freedom and property rights
UBI is a pipe dream that would bankrupt the nation
Universal Basic Income would wreck the economy
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
The wrongs of Proudman
Criticism does not amount to discrimination or abuse
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
The mixed legacy of #MeToo
There is a difference between confronting male behaviour and recreational man-hating
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
Why the Conservatives will be anti-woke
Standing up to the thought police is key to making change
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
