Thomas Jefferson
AI and the Jefferson Option
Eighteenth-century advice on surviving the AI apocalypse
What makes an American?
What characterises a US citizen in the 21st century, beyond abiding by the country’s laws and supporting its constitution?
The American chaos machine
The United States’s current aggressive expansionism and domestic strife are an intrinsic part of its national character
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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
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The vibe shift is a myth
Far from living through an age of cultural rebellion, we are seeing the imposition of cultural conformity
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
How should Christian organisations respond to illegal migration?
It is wrong to think that Christianity demands that we open our borders
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case