Trident
Making sense of the SNP
Anglo-Scottish relations from a historical perspective
Does Britain need more nukes?
The Integrated Review: goodbye Middle East; hello South China Sea; but still Russia first
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Breaking the mould
The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking
We must strengthen British capitalism
Having a successful capitalist system depends on having a strong state
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
Rendering the word of God in English
500 years ago, William Tyndale published his groundbreaking New Testament translation
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
It’s time to see Brexit through
The next government must finally drag Britain out of the European Union’s tractor beam
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders