I’m done with default illiberalism
It took me far too long to reach the point where I could vote for Donald Trump confidently. I’d been…
A lack of national identity has killed off the Great American Novel
Is there hope for literature in America this century? The forecast looks grim. One walk through the literary fiction section…
Is Donald Trump right to link autism with paracetamol?
Donald Trump’s apparent suggestion that people could protect themselves against Covid by injecting themselves with bleach marked a low point…
The pace is quickening in DC
September in DC is the real new year. The heat hasn’t broken, but the air feels heavier. Congress regroups, summer…
Thoughts on moving houses
“A house for sale is not a home,” says Wendell Berry, which is perhaps why we have delayed putting our…
Is Charlie Kirk a Christian martyr?
This feels deeply inappropriate, I thought, as I started watching Erika Kirk’s hagiographic eulogy. I am watching a grieving widow…
The secret behind Ed Davey’s stunts
Each new day at Liberal Democrat conference means one thing: another stunt with the party’s MPs. Flower-arranging, morning swims and…
How the Democratic party became the party of the aggrieved
A well-known writer in the 1930s – I think John Dos Passos – compared Southern California to the lower-left corner…
Why Eleven Madison Park had to put meat back on the menu
Eleven Madison Park, perhaps the finest of New York’s fine-dining establishments, is adding select meat dishes back to its prix…
Why I was right to ban vegans
I remember the day I heard my culinary hero Daniel Humm had decided to make Eleven Madison Park’s menu plant-based.…
Is ‘carbon butter’ really good for us?
All butter is made from carbon, but not all butter is carbon butter. This is the name being given to…
My quest for the perfect Christmas broccoli
I adore broccoli, but I despise seeing it shrink-wrapped and kidnapped in the grocery store. The sight of those slightly…
Is this America’s most racist town?
On a suffocatingly humid Friday morning in August, I sat in a rental car parked outside the home of Thom…
The end of Fergie
Sarah ‘Fergie’ Ferguson, the beleaguered Duchess of York, has finally met her reputational Waterloo. Despite showily cutting off all contact…
Rachel Reeves only has ugly choices
Rachel Reeves should shift the tax burden away from workers and onto those who take most from the state: our…
Private Eye’s shameful Charlie Kirk article
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, a peculiar phenomenon has re-emerged: the casket caveat. Instead of simply condemning the…
Albanese’s global embarrassment
Rejected again. Donald Trump has found a way to avoid meeting Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, and it’s probably for…
‘Racism’: The most abused word in political discourse
Among the disgraceful comments made by left-wing politicians and social activists after the assassination of Charlie Kirk is the claim…
Net Zero with expensive extras
There is a consensus that cheap and reliable energy is indispensable to modern living standards, but the preferred means of…
Jimmy Kimmel is back
Jimmy Kimmel’s broadcast has made a lot more news off the air than on it. The latest is that ABC…
Tyl and error
“DON’T TAKE TYLENOL,” the President advised pregnant women, forcefully, in the Oval Office yesterday afternoon, because his Administration now says…
Has Farage managed to put Boris to bed?
How do you solve a problem like B Johnson? It has troubled the Conservative party since his departure, not least as…
Rachel Reeves’s ‘taxi tax’ plans show how desperate she is
It will at least give the cabbies something to genuinely complain about. Amid all the wheezes that Chancellor Rachel Reeves…
Australia could regret its decision to recognise Palestine
When it comes to major decisions certain to anger Donald Trump and Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, seeking safety in…
