Sacred Cows
Stanley Baldwin, unfairly vilified pragmatist
A leader of great personal qualities
Carry Ons: Phwoar! What a lovely set of hits
Grim, funny glimpses of a Britain in decline
Martin Scorsese: rinse and repeat self-indulgence
The director of Goodfellas has debased his talent
Joe Wright: Auteur of awfulness
His films are overrated, overindulged, and dismal
Association Football: A great game gone to rot
The sport is now characterised by the conditioned reflex of dishonesty, the bleating of the wronged
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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
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
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
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law