William Brown
William Brown turns one hundred
“I’ll thcream and thcream and thcream until I’m thick”
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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 problem with scapegoating social media
Social media has become a convenient whipping boy for Britain’s political class
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Regulations without services
How the state is prohibiting without providing
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The SNP is in a Peter Murrell muddle
The Peter Murrell case has exposed the rot at the heart of the SNP’s political culture
The injustice of early releases
The government is failing victims for the sake of political convenience
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall