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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
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The vibe shift is a myth
Far from living through an age of cultural rebellion, we are seeing the imposition of cultural conformity
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Shabir Ahmed is a symptom
Deporting the grooming gang leader, while just, will not solve our problems
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves