Pubs
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
Why we love pubs
Politicians are squeezing pubs out of existence without understanding why they matter
Don’t make parents pay for pints
It would be a terrible mistake to uphold the two-child benefit cap
Let our pubs live
The government should recognise how important pubs are to society
Called to the bars
Whatever any reader knows about pubs, they will still learn more from this book
Real postliberalism starts in pubs
The state cannot be the source of community attachments and affection
Leave our pubs alone
New public health proposals are missing the pint
Defending an outdoor smoke
There is no rational argument for prohibition
March 2024: Letters to the Editor
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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
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
Truth and consequences for ministers
Former Ministers should be hauled back before MPs to justify their poor decisions
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low