Sound of Freedom
Sound of a free press?
How did a film wishing to highlight the sexual exploitation of children become a culture war?
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
Kemi Badenoch is a useful idiot
The former Secretary of State has a track record of advancing woke regulations
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
The dam of Spanish eco-politics creaks
Will no death toll make elites reconsider green overreach?
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Unionism has to wise up
In Northern Ireland, inaction is decline
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
