Society
Mental healthing ourselves to death
Our discourse has brought more confusion than clarity
Those new puritans
A righteous dissection of Poundland post-structuralists
Rodent utopia
Dropping out of the rat race
Why modern novels are so boring
Writers who forget bourgeois aspiration lose a dimension
The genius that was Dr Strangelove
Ananyo Bhattacharya offers an ambitious biography of a genius who defied categorisation in life and death
One rule for them
The crimes of the woke middle class come with the safety net of a judiciary that is in on the racket
Big questions, muddled answers
Human Frontiers is an entertaining, zippy read but it feels one layer down from its ostensible subject: big ideas
To the bitter end
Why on earth would we want to see the same tawdry old stories endlessly re-enacted?
In the shadows of giants
Why are so many still enthralled by even the most grotesque Victoriana?
Ideology-based medicine
How the ”Science-Based Medicine” blog succumbed to the pressure of trans ideology
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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
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous