Progressive Realism
Message to Britain: get real
We need a foreign policy that accepts the dark facts of international life
Has the Chagos Islands deal killed progressive realism?
Keir Starmer’s foreign policy concept is on the rocks already
Labour’s insecurity counsel
A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Could the driverless car save the country pub?
Autonomous vehicles will give us the freedom to drink further from home
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated
Wit as well as social conscience
Avril Quartet: Claires Obscures (Etcetera)
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain