On giving up my smartphone
Giving up your device isn’t liberating. It’s tedious.
The perverse outcomes of the Online Safety Act
Teenagers can now drink cider with a meal, two years before they can read a Reddit thread about it
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China