rationality
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
Why conservatism is rational
Conservatives should take pride in the rationality of their reasoning
The erotic art book banned by a pope
A rich tale of great artists, pornography and the papacy has made I Modi one of the most fabled of all books
The new Scotland
Scottish culture is narrowing and secularising under the influence of a strident liberal elite
Ukraine can still triumph
It needs, and deserves, Western patience and solidarity
Keir the coward
Narrowing the borders of permissible opinion will not solve Britain’s societal crises
Free speech for everyone, except …
We have to stop compromising our defence of free speech whenever it is convenient
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
The never-ending question
Jonathan Gullis may still be in the middle of his parliamentary question
A festival for women — and men?
You cannot address the underrepresentation of women by including men
The wrong kind of groupthink
Why do so many economists deny that the value of money is related to its quantity?
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
World Budget Day
On World Book Day, Jeremy Hunt tried and failed to dress up as Nigel Lawson
