UK Government
For a good cause?
National Lottery funding and activist organisations
Never mind the bollocks, here’s the tax cuts
The system needed shaking up
Immigration and consent
Three decades of empty promises
The odd couples
Against the Prime Minister/Chancellor diarchy
A pair of presidential PMs
Is Boris Johnson reminiscent of Churchill or a very different PM?
The King is our eternal everyman
Oak Apple Day celebrates the inevitable return of the primordial and the perennial
Censored speech
The Queen’s speech revealed a government failing to protect free expression
Return to Reith
Why conservatives need to do more than bash the Beebs
Nudge Nudge Wink Wink
Are policy makers finally waking up to the harms of behavioural science?
Runaway judiciary
The Government’s new consultation programme offers hope for a long overdue reform of the Human Rights Act
Netherworld
The Dutch golden age could be anything but for the painters
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
He’s not the messiah, he’s a transwoman
Transsexual Apostate is a disturbing book, written for disturbing times
In praise of centibillionaires
When people are free to make a lot of money from new businesses, everybody wins
The broad influence of Aquinas
His influence has been felt in economics as well as philosophy and religion
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
WW3 and the end of history
The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come
AI has not killed the author
Advanced technology can enhance rather than replacing the pleasure of a good book
Budgets are overrated
Taxation and spending make little difference while Britain is unable to build
Seeing through Judith Butler
Very little substance lurks within the obscure prose
Why not the Taliban Line?
These new overground lines are not sufficiently progressive
