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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes
Stop underestimating British tech
We should not surrender to the idea that American companies can do everything better
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
The state enablers of the Stade shooting
A fatal shooting in Germany illuminated more than one man
