Prime Minister
Absolutely not Boris
His personality cult must end
Blue crush
Tories are back in love with Boris
In defence of Liz
She failed, but who didn’t?
They’ll have what she’s having
The PM impressed the easily impressed
Trussception
WARNING — contains spoilers about Dunkirk
U-turn off a cliff
The only way forward was through
A resounding defeat
Can Truss turn things around?
Clothes maketh not an Iron Lady
Liz Truss’s naive doctrine of “geo-liberalism” will not survive contact with the frictions and compromises of a messy, complex world
How Britain fell out of love with Boris
The story of a shy extrovert, an unprincipled believer, a depressive funster
Labour’s reluctant royalists
How Labour leaders from Wilson to Starmer fell for The Queen
The broad influence of Aquinas
His influence has been felt in economics as well as philosophy and religion
Britain should stand up to Mauritius
The British Government must make it clear that it will not allow a foreign country to threaten British citizens
Addressing misogyny must include addressing trans activism
Against the wokewashing of sexual objectification
How big a problem is problem gambling?
Jolyon Maugham should not roll the dice on opposing GambleAware
Music for a warm bath
Bloch, Bruch, Dohnanyi (Claves)
In praise of borrowed ideas
AI will not be the death of creativity, and could even enhance it
Murders for April
April is the cruellest month, breeding detective fiction out of the dry land
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
Sunak, false equivalence and the phantom far right
There is no comparison between the threat of Islamism and the threat of the far right
The Roman Republic is worth thinking about
The life and death of Tiberius Gracchus illustrate the virtues of populism
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
