Recreational Freedom
The promised land
Even when we try to be clear about how land makes us feel, we often get tangled up
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Hurty words
Robust debate is to be celebrated, not condemned
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Love on manoeuvres
La fille du régiment, Covent Garden
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
A triumphant return
Jesus Christ Superstar, the London Palladium
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own