Propaganda
Fear in a time of Covid
Manipulating public emotion is a dangerous and costly exercise
The weaponisation of national treasures
Expect still more celebrities to join Joanna Lumley in tying their personal brands to the most radical environmental demands
China’s media empire
China’s leaders are growing impatient as they seek to shape world opinion
Nationalist Health Service
Why does the Government say ‘your NHS’ rather than ‘your country’?
Religious freedom is back on the agenda
The International Freedom of Religion or Belief Bill, currently before parliament, is an important step for securing Britain’s role in promoting religious liberty
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance
British defence must be renewed
War may not be imminent but Britain must still be secure
Why not the Taliban Line?
These new overground lines are not sufficiently progressive
Playing the victim
A new book satirises the bizarre dynamics of social justice activism
The long and winding road
Join us on our journey down the roads of the 1800s
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
A sound of Rowling thunder
Scotland’s government and police seem determined to turn themselves into a laughing stock
The meaningless models of “public health”
Another brick in the “public health” fortress of unreality
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
