Petrol panic 2021
The petrol shortage could have been avoided if petrol stations had raised their prices
Sweet taste of sovereignty
It seems “Global Britain” is smaller and less delicious
Hot air
Climate change targets are rising at a dangerous rate
Follow the Who Funds You
Oddly nobody’s shadowbanning conspiracy theories about the Great Barrington Declaration
The risk in a second lockdown is clear
Everyone suffering in pursuit of impossible promises is pointless
Who do we think we’re kidding with the NHS?
Someone somewhere damaged this country very badly
The lockdown’s founding myth
We’ve forgotten that the Imperial model didn’t even call for a full lockdown
Blown fusionism: is a common enemy enough?
Ed West, Small Men on the Wrong Side of History
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
Kemi Badenoch is a useful idiot
The former Secretary of State has a track record of advancing woke regulations
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
Is Donald Trump the new Hillary Clinton?
His campaign is failing to reach out to enough voters
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
Degrees of scepticism
Overseas students never came to Britain so they could bring their children, it’s a coincidence
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
