The Maginot Line
Was the Maginot line really such a failure?
A new book rehabilitates a linear symbol of French defeat
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Reform should not abandon free markets
Nigel Farage should stick to his liberal guns against the forces of collectivism
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real