The End of October
Lawrence Wright’s pandemic prescience
An interview with the man who saw it coming
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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
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Peston’s Inbox
Burnham: “Ay up! I’m a northerner”
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.