Power
Free speech is a waste of breath
Free speech is not our cause, and it gets us nowhere anyway
Liz Truss was right but naive
She grasped the scale of Britain’s plight but misunderstood the nature of power
Soft power has little substance
The foreign policy concept has been used as an excuse for declinist myth-making
The man who loved power
Henry Kissinger loved to wield power more than he respected its implications
How to fix Brexit
A flawed book by a Remainer may offer a crucial answer
It’s a drag
How sacralization ruins low culture
Hail to the Chief (Part II)
The American Civil War and the expansion of executive power
Speaking power to truth
Patrick Porter reviews The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power
Britain is at breaking point
The UK is experiencing existential challenges, but neither elitists nor populists offer a solution
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
The return of non-crime hate incidents
Labour are attacking free speech through the back door
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
