Truth
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
The costs of telling the truth too late
The girl guiding decision is causing pain — so why do activists seek to prolong it?
How EDI corrupts public life
It compels people to accept falsehoods in the name of equality
The problem of midwit misinformation
Iran, insurance and how smart people lose sight of the truth
Is Mark Carney a Straussian?
The rules-based order might have been based on fiction but fiction is essential in politics
I hate engagement bait
Social media can be a tool for uncovering the truth, but also for obscuring it
Why we cannot trust official inquiries
They can be a way for the powerful to neutralise genuinely difficult questions
Britain is drowning in a sea of bad law
The Public Office (Accountability) Bill will accomplish nothing
Informing the disinformation reporters
Radicalisation is more fuelled by the nightly news than by shadowy “disinformation”
Most Read
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
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future