Power
Conservatives can no longer trust institutions
Institutions are only as effective as the people within them and the culture beyond them
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
Strictly Come Tory
Who will win the hearts of the nation?
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
Let’s start a cat flap
Why do cute predators get a pass from conservationists?
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
Is university still worth it?
Rising fees raise questions about the value of some degrees
A race to the bottom
Women should not give legitimacy to an appalling platform
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
