Post-Liberalism
Bogged down in intellectual foppery
The post-liberalism movement has so far undertaken little more than ideological bickering
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
The British family is nuclear powered
Sorry, post-liberals, but in Britain communitarianism is not traditional
Life as a lonely quadrant voter
Who should you vote for if you lean left economically and right culturally?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
Beef and Brexit prosperity
High beef prices are a symptom of a deeper problem—Britain has left the EU, but not its economic mindset.
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence