Public Transport
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
A nation of motorists
Metropolitan journalists do not appreciate how the nation travels
See it, say it, sorted
The slogan is not only vulgar, but an implicit lie
Like Wotan driving the storm
What it’s like to fulfil a boyhood dream on the footplate of a classic steam locomotive
The Tories have a nostalgia problem
Modern leaders must focus on modern problems
Scrapping for space
Nick Cohen says hamfisted Covid road closures are dividing opinion
Saving Face
Like a home-made mask, our tolerance is wearing thin
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty