BLM is dying but it’s legacy lives on
It can be hard to remember just how strange things were during the pandemic. Every day the front pages covered…
Revoking Roe v. Wade is not an assault on democracy
The leak of a draft Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade has sparked a furious reaction in Britain. Yet for…
In praise of Elon Musk's Twitter takeover
If there’s one quality that defines Elon Musk other than his entrepreneurship, it’s his ability to drive his detractors mad.…
What are the Tories for?
It’s an odd accusation to levy at Boris Johnson’s government, but the Conservative party feels grey. Flights of fancy suggesting…
The shameful silence surrounding David Amess’s murder
Ali Harbi Ali has been given a whole life sentence. But perhaps this is too steep an introduction. Perhaps, like…
Neither Ukraine nor Russia can win the war
While Russia has agreed to pull back its troops from Kyiv, the signs of a wider breakthrough in peace talks are…
Russia has never been a part of the West
In 1697 Tsar Peter the Great set out on a great journey across western Europe, seeking the support of European…
In defence of mutually assured destruction
The slow return of the 1980s has reached its logical conclusion. The prospect of nuclear annihilation is haunting our nightmares once…
A no-fly zone is an act of war
Fuelled by repeated appeals from President Zelensky, western support for a no-fly zone in Ukraine is growing. The number of Americans in…
Putin is no Hitler
That English history lessons consist of World War II and the Tudors has come back to bite us again. The…
Putin's war in Ukraine is about to turn even nastier
Is Ukraine winning its war against Russia? Watching the conflict through Twitter or broadcast media, you’d be forgiven for thinking so. Despite…
Putin, Ukraine and the end of 'the end of history'
As Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops onto Ukrainian soil, the initial Western response was swift, if not underwhelming. Trade in…
Britain is trapped in a Boomerocracy
‘If the young knew what was good for them’ the historian Niall Ferguson once remarked, ‘they’d join the Tea party’.…
What is so enraging about a group of white men?
Pity the poor 41 Club. The last time an image of a group of men eating dinner caused this much…
What's worse: kicking a cat or racism?
The best football teams are adept at turning defence into attack. After a video of centre back Kurt Zouma practising…
Life after Plan B: are we ready for the 'new normal'?
Is Covid over? With Plan B restrictions finally lifted, there’ll be no more working from home. Masks will no longer…
Operation Save Big Dog and the real scandal of Boris’s leadership
There is a theory which states the primary reason for Boris Johnson’s political longevity is that there are simply so…
The Foreign Office isn’t fit for purpose
Now that the dust from the choppers has settled, we are left with two abiding images of the West’s adventure…
Kyle Rittenhouse and the failure of the American state
Kyle Rittenhouse is innocent. We knew that anyway, but the simple fact of something being true in no way guarantees…
Lukashenko and Putin are exploiting Europe's migration muddle
At the border of Belarus and Poland, camps of migrants wait for a chance to cross the border into the…
Oxford has more to be ashamed of than Gove
Being the most prestigious university in the English-speaking world comes with its drawbacks. While the rolls of alumni are littered…
The problem with PC policing
Ah, the last days of summer. Long evenings, sunny weekends, and crusty Extinction Rebellion hippies blocking arterial traffic lanes to…
Older voters are killing British democracy
There is an idea of the state that argues that the role of government is to act as a benevolent…
The UN's American obsession
Under other circumstances I wouldn’t mind living in the American empire here in Britain. The tithes are reasonable and the…
Why the Oxford Queen portrait row matters
The sheer scale of the outrage over Magdalen College Oxford electing to remove a portrait of the Queen from the…
