Statism
Labour is trapped in a statist doom-loop
Keir Starmer has a quasi-religious belief in government power
Parents, not the state, should be responsible for children
What has happened to parents when kids cannot brush their teeth?
The slow death of public spaces
Pointless regulations are sucking joy from British life
Skin-walkers of the state
How absolute power lurks within liberalism
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
Hang up on Britain’s blight boxes
Outdated regulations are keeping thousands of redundant phone boxes on Britain’s streets
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
In defence of division
We cannot allow oikophobes and iconoclasts to define what it means for us to be united
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
The untold story of Brexit
Part political history, part memoir, Matthew Elliott’s account captures the campaign that reshaped British politics