06.07.2022
Britain imports yet another American culture warRoe vs Wade has precisely zero relevance for the UK, though you'd never imagine it from the headlines...
01.07.2022
How does an incumbent government get re-elected in this climate?Colombia was the regional success story, but has just voted for the policies that are wrecking its neighbours...
23.06.2022
Will genetics now be deplatformed?Because racists like the idea of inherited group differences, some want to deplatform ANY studies of heritable traits...
16.06.2022
Britain sees race relations through the distorting glass of American segregationWhite conservatives are dismissed as Klansmen, black conservatives as Uncle Toms - but what have these terms got to do with us?...
09.06.2022
What if America had kept the monarchy?The Queen's Jubilee reminded us of the value of having a neutral but unquestioned referee...
02.06.2022
The aftermath of an atrocity is the worst time to decide policyLots of factors contribute to the grisly uniqueness of the US on school shootings, of which gun laws are only one...
25.05.2022
How I invented Brexit at OxfordSimon Kuper's new book claims that Brexit was cooked up in late 1980s Oxford, and he's got half a point....
19.05.2022
So what if male and female brains are different?Certain truths are considered uncontroversial by neuroscientists but unspeakable by politicians...
12.05.2022
No conscientious government could keep the Northern Ireland ProtocolThe EU is interpreting the rules in a deliberately vindictive way, undermining peace in the Province...
05.05.2022
Who will get the blame for our immiseration?Some will blame the war or the pandemic for the cost of living crisis, others their governments...
27.04.2022
The West is friendlessAnglosphere states and their allies can win wars, but few share their values...
21.04.2022
It’s one rule for Boris and one for everyone else - but not the way people meanOverseas observers are incredulous that there are moves to bring down the PM over cake...
11.04.2022
The real reason Russia is losingThe behaviour of the FSB in the run-up to the invasion explains why autocracies are bad at warfare...
29.03.2022
Is nuclear escalation inevitable?A gun that appears on stage in Act One, wrote Chekhov, will be fired by the end of Act Three...
21.03.2022
Why do self-proclaimed American nationalists back Putin?The far Left will back any anti-American dictator; but the sympathy among Trumpists is far more unsettling...
16.03.2022
We’re all going to be a lot poorerIts not just the inflation - it's the cretinous retreat into "self-sufficiency"...
09.03.2022
Ukraine has made nationalism acceptableMany Western observers understand, for the first time, why being independent matters...
01.03.2022
Travel restrictions are starting to look permanentThey serve no purpose but, like the bans on shoes and liquids, they will prove impossible to scrap...
19.02.2022
Dictatorship is terrifyingly easyWhat do the post-Soviet tyrants have in common? Courage? Ruthlessness? Charisma? No. They just happened to be in the right place...
11.02.2022
Ukraine explains why wars still happenLogically, the weaker party should concede at the outset, but Ukraine has good reasons to fight and lose...
02.02.2022
The PM remains Sir Toby in a world suddenly full of MalvoliosBoris Johnson was elected as a Cavalier, but the lockdown turned the rest of us into Roundheads...
27.01.2022
Britain is first out of the pandemicWhich, paradoxically, helps explain why the PM is in so much trouble...
18.01.2022
What we think of as reasoned opinions are usually rationalisations of our gut feelingsWe have an aesthetic objection to trophy hunting, but tell ourselves that it's about conservation...
03.01.2022
Covid is now endemic, making almost all our restrictions pointlessWhy test travellers when the disease is everywhere? Why require masks when we'll all get it?...
22.12.2021
Appeal to Unionists or be as distant as possible from Britain? Ireland has made its choiceAnd a perfectly legitimate choice it is - but it should come as no surprise that Northern iIreland is unimpressed...
16.12.2021
One word has been completely excised from the lockdown debateNot "freedom" or "proportionality" or "vaccines" but "Sweden"...
08.12.2021
What if Ukraine and Taiwan were invaded on the same day?The alternative to the Anglosphere hegemony is not some world in which other countries are left alone...
05.12.2021
The monomania of the woke should disqualify them from the conversation - but it does the oppositeOnce the USA had abandoned Jefferson's rationalism, his statue was bound to follow...
27.11.2021
Brussels wants to teach Britain a lesson - even if it destabilises Northern IrelandWith a tiny modicum of goodwill, a solution could be found - but the EU has no interest in a win-win outcome...
19.11.2021
Protectionism is really destructionismPoliticians on all sides know it, but they play to the imagined stupidity of the electorate...
10.11.2021
The lockdowns made no difference to global temperaturesEco-extremists want to make us poorer and fewer - but the environmental impact would be negligible...
04.11.2021
Poland fights for her independenceThe question of whether EU law overrides the Polish constitution goes to the heart of the European project...
27.10.2021
Politics is becoming more violentPolitical assassinations are becoming more frequent, though the overall homicide rate is declining ...
21.10.2021
Screening Othello can get you cancelledWith unconscious imperialism, American Leftists insist that others see race relations through their eyes...
13.10.2021
Identity politics has been slow to reach Spain, where Columbus remains a heroIndigenous groups may revile his memory, but Spain celebrates the man who made theirs the world's second language...
07.10.2021
Conservatives, look upon Canada, and trembleCanada, the first nation to embrace multiculturalism, now has a solidly woke electorate...
28.09.2021
Aukus will protect the French, though they won’t appreciate itWhen defending the peace of the world, you need reliable allies...
24.09.2021
End the travel restrictionsMeasures brought in in the early days of the pandemic make no sense when dealing with an endemic virus...
20.09.2021
Will the world’s wokest leader be re-elected?Canadians are choosing between the politically correct nation created by Trudeau père and the older Canada of Juno Beach...
12.09.2021
Why do some parties oppose basic anti-fraud measures at elections?Labour supports vaccine passports but opposes voter ID...
08.09.2021
Biden listened to the Taliban before he listened to BritainWith the United States withdrawing into her hemisphere, Britain must redefine her role...
28.08.2021
No Pax Americana, no paxAmericans understandably want to be left alone but, as in 1941, that is not an option...
16.08.2021
Welcome to the age of the autocratThe long Anglosphere hegemony is over - and by Heaven we'll miss it...
10.08.2021
Ancestral guilt is backThe tribal morality of bloodguilt and vendetta has been revived in the form of woke...
28.07.2021
British Servicemen must be subject to the rule of lawAn amnesty for soldiers in Northern Ireland would put them on the same moral plane as the terrorist bombers...
20.07.2021
Admit it: Britain is one of the least racist countries in the worldWe exaggerated a handful of racist Tweets because they confirmed the false idea that Britain was unusually bigoted...
14.07.2021
Why are we stirring up old quarrels among migrant communities?We have been extraordinarily good at burying old antagonisms - until now...
06.07.2021
The world over, we are giving up on liberal democracyProcess is subordinated to a preferred outcome, and no one cares about the rules any more...
28.06.2021
Britain is the Anglosphere outlier in its attachment to lockdownEver since 1940, we have been more authoritarian than our daughter nations...
25.06.2021
The green jobs fallacyGovernments can't "create" jobs - at least, not without destroying other jobs...
19.06.2021
The Anglo-American alliance: still making the world safe 80 years onRenewing the Atlantic Charter was a reminder that freedom is guaranteed by the Anglosphere in arms...
07.06.2021
When did we decide to make big businesses our moral arbiters?An entrepreneur is already behaving morally by running a profitable company...
01.06.2021
Trade sanctions won’t work against Belarus - or anyone elseEither topple the regime or learn to live with it, but don't imagine that an economic embargo will make the slightest difference...
24.05.2021
Now the woke come after imperial unitsIf any system was imposed by force, it was metrication - but we are way past logic here...
18.05.2021
What’s wrong with Anglo-Saxon values?Thomas Jefferson was right: the roots of modern liberty stretch back to pre-Norman England...
10.05.2021
Why Northern Ireland will endureIrish republicans chose maximum distance from Britain over accommodating Ulster's identity...
03.05.2021
Ghislaine Maxwell is as entitled as anyone else to the presumption of innocenceBad people - perhaps bad people especially - deserve justice...
26.04.2021
Communism is back - thanks to CovidPeru is set to become the first country to elect a Marxist with a majority in peacetime. But it won't be the last...
22.04.2021
Diversity training makes things worseIt isn't just useless - it actually implants new biases and grievances...
14.04.2021
It’s official - ethnic minorities flourish in BritainRace professionals are struggling to keep up their claim that things are getting worse...
06.04.2021
Cancel culture only ever applies in one directionMichel Foucault will remain a woke icon, despite revelations that he abused young Arab boys...
29.03.2021
Why do some deaths matter more than others? Because of the lockdownsCooped up off school and off work, we seize on tragic events and try to build them into something bigger...
26.03.2021
Brussels goes full ChávezExpropriating stock, seizing factories, breaking laws - and all to cover its own mistakes...
15.03.2021
Victimhood trumps everything - decency, consistency, honesty, the lotClaim to belong to an oppressed group and no one will want to challenge your version of events...
10.03.2021
And then they came for Dr SeussHe might have had impeccable liberal credentials, but our woke inquisitors don't care about things like that...
01.03.2021
The woke have met their match in ShakespeareAttempts to find racism in the corpus diminishes those seeking it, not the corpus...
23.02.2021
Minimum wages hurt the poorA better way to raise living standards for the least well off is to cut taxes on employment and investment, and so create jobs...
15.02.2021
Nationalists without being patriotsWestern democracies are losing ground to authoritarianism - globally and domestically...
09.02.2021
The more time we spend online, the angrier and more extreme we becomeOn Brexit, Trump and the lockdowns, I have gone from being extreme to being wet without altering my views...
01.02.2021
Maybe Americans will finally understand what Brexit was really aboutIt is the EU, not Britain, that is the populist, protectionist rogue state...
25.01.2021
Does the label “genocide” make anything better?We should be wary of collectivising people in death, as in life...
18.01.2021
The solution to America’s culture war is radical decentralisationThe two tribes are now so far apart, and so geographically clustered, that there is no way of bridging the gap...
13.01.2021
The republic will survive Trump - but will the Republicans?The GOP must break cleanly with the man who came late and malevolently to the party...
21.12.2020
The woke will stop at nothing in pursuit of their demented cultural revolutionJulie Burchill, a provocatrice hired to write a provocative book, has it cancelled - fore being too provocative ...
15.12.2020
If there were a way to make wealth taxes work, some country would have found it by nowYou can only confiscate present wealth, not future wealth - and future wealth won't be created if it's subject to confiscation...
09.12.2020
The day is coming when we will wonder how anyone could eat an animalClean meat will free up vast tracts of land and reduce carbon emissions...
30.11.2020
Why the United States should join the CPTPPPulling out of the Pacific trade deal opened the door to Chinese hegemony...
23.11.2020
Irish America clings to quarrels now largely forgotten in Ireland itselfThe tragic circumstances of the migration made the US different from other diaspora communities...
17.11.2020
GOP leaders know that Trump has lost - but they won’t say so out loudThe president's peevishness is harming the Republicans and undermining the Republic...
09.11.2020
One thing distinguishes the United States from Latin America - the rule of lawThose who refuse to accept an election result because they resent the outcome are endangering American exceptionalism...
02.11.2020
Commentators are over-compensating, refusing the believe the signs that Biden will winAs with Britain in 2019, the polls may turn out to have been right all along...
26.10.2020
The world that lies beyond the lockdowns will be an uglier and more authoritarian onePower has shifted to the autocracies, and even in the West liberalism is in retreat...
20.10.2020
It’s Kang versus Kodos, a knave or a fool, a fantasist Falstaff against a senescent LearWhoever wins the 2020 presidential election, America is heading in a darker direction...
12.10.2020
Sweden has demolished the case for the lockdownLow population density? Economic hit? Higher death rate than Finland? All utterly irrelevant...
06.10.2020
A war out of a comic novelThe Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has a Gilbert and Sullivan quality...
28.09.2020
Hume, Voltaire, Kant, Darwin - identity politics is turning on the men who made the EnlightenmentAn irrationalist creed is now openly attacking logic and science as white male baggage...
21.09.2020
Joe Biden’s ignorance about Northern Ireland jeopardises the Atlantic AllianceThe Democrat, who has long flirted with extreme republicanism, is threatening the UK over a complete non-issue...
14.09.2020
Sweden’s strategy is working - which suggests that the rest of us ruined ourselves needlesslyThe Swedish counter-example means lockdown enthusiasts can't claim that things would otherwise have been worse...
07.09.2020
If the presidential election is close, the losers won’t accept the resultCivil wars happen, not when people disagree about what should be done, but when they disagree about who has the right to do it...
31.08.2020
Canada’s new Conservative leader speaks to and for the common sense majorityErin O'Toole wants to lead Canada back to the heart of the Western alliance...
25.08.2020
Americans no longer care about the rule of lawWhat is howled down as an abuse from the other side is cheered from your own - an attitude incompatible with liberal democracy...
10.08.2020
Victimhood does not confer virtueJohn Hume was no better, morally, than his Unionist opponents; but he happened to represent the side seen as the underdog...
03.08.2020
No country is perfect, but the notion that slavery was a peculiarly American vice is ridiculousWhen people say they want to study American history "warts and all", they often want to look only at the warts...
27.07.2020
Twitter has infected older media with its angry, aggressive, infuriating toneSocial media give us what we secretly want: opinion presented as news, moralising assertions, confirmation bias...
20.07.2020
We have inverted the old liberal ideal - skin colour should matter no more than hair colourThe NYT's logic is that two American babies born on the same day arrive with pre-existing grievances against each other...
14.07.2020
The silent majority is always bigger than you thinkVoters hate disorder more than anything else. The BLM unrest might just have put Trump back in the game...
06.07.2020
After years of building its strength, China has chosen this moment to strikeSnuffing out Hong Kong's freedoms is a clear breach of China's international commitments and a challenge to the world ...
29.06.2020
Why do the few conservatives who criticise Donald Trump attract such vitriol?Could it be that they are the GOP's bad conscience, a reminder of what used to be mainstream conservative values?...
