Keir Starmer and the Slow Death of English Liberty
May 9, 2025
There is something deeply unsettling about Sir Keir Starmer’s rise—not merely in the way a man of such rigid ideological conviction has slithered into power,
Guest Posts
Waiting For Godot: Britain and Its Discontents
May 8, 2025
By most parameters, be it education, healthcare and democratic participation, Britain lags behind most other ‘industrialised’ nations. Granted, nations should not be judged on GDP
The Over-diagnosis of Special Educational Needs
May 5, 2025
Even our dear leader, founder of this excellent website, is wrong sometimes. In his latest Spectator column, Toby Young raises the redundancies that will inevitably
Icebergs No Longer Melting?
April 29, 2025
Dramatic confirmation that the sea ice in the Arctic has been stable for nearly two decades is contained in a recently published science paper from
First Day at School
April 18, 2025
Do you remember your first day at school? I have fragments of memories, but one memory which is vivid is crying bitterly as my mother
Marine Le Pen Is the Latest Victim of the Global Ban on the Right
April 4, 2025
Marine Le Pen, former chair of the French Right-populist Rassemblement National and the leading opposition politician in France, has been convicted by a Paris court of
The Land and the Taxman
March 30, 2025
The land does not change. It is the same earth that fed our grandfathers and will feed our grandsons – if we let it. But
‘Adolescence’ and the Demonisation of Working-Class Males
March 27, 2025
I tend to read the ‘Guardian‘ out of some macabre self hate, fear and loathing. A kind of mental self harming. You keep thinking ‘how
The Shameful Story of How Australia’s Family Court Was Weaponised Against Men
March 21, 2025
This year is the 50th anniversary of Australia’s Family Court. That’s hardly cause for celebration. Over the last half century, what was originally designed as a