US Civil War
Dishonest Abe
He is revered as the man who freed US slaves. Yet he never intended to do so and it was he who forced a war for the Union
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
International Society for Libdem Consciousness
It’s a cult, but at least it’s one of the cheerful ones
Back in the arena
If you liked Gladiator, you’ll like Gladiator II
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
