Samuel Johnson
Self-help with Samuel Johnson
Improving ourselves takes good principles, not mere goals
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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 testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
The right does not need religion
We should not mourn the end of the Quiet Revival
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets