realism
The fear of spheres
Analysis of Donald Trump and American world power still suffers from conceptual confusion
Against global Britain
Let’s defend our own backyard first
The case for realism
We should be pessimistic about the possibility of change
The case for keeping out of things
There can be far worse things than being “irrelevant” to a war
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
Why is the US facing a “crisis of credibility”?
It is a crisis that has been created by the hubris of the establishment
Resurrecting Lavery
The decline of Sir John Lavery’s reputation was undeserved
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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
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities