state
The problem with public sector procurement
The Social Value Act has brought questionable benefits and serious costs
Clothes maketh the nation
How servants of the Crown dress is not trivial. It refl ects Britain’s decline
Belief and the Blob
The Bloom Review paints a grim picture of modern Britain
Radical chic charities
The madness of giving activist charities public money to oppose government policy
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
Immigration restrictionists need more honest arguments
Our debates are side-stepping fundamental questions of morality
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
Parliamentary sovereignty (extreme edition)
Rwanda is safe. How do we know? Because we said so.
Why Britain needs Popular Conservatism
The Conservative Party has not fulfilled the promise of Brexit or overcome the legacy of Blair
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
British spies and the IRA
Blair, Clinton, Ahern et al were credited with putting together the Northern Ireland peace deal, but 800 British agents also played their part
Teaching leftists about tax
Sometimes, an argument about economic policy is like an oil spill
The slick glide through the institutions
When values are outsourced to third-party organisations, everybody suffers
Open season
I’m trying to stick to wild game, venison and native beef— and monogamy too
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind
