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The monsters we become
Nietzsche would have been great at Twitter. He excelled at epigrams, which are to philosophy as the fortune-cookie motto is…
No vax, no vote? Macron's vaccine passport plan sparks fury
Will it be necessary to produce a passe sanitaire (vaccination passport) to be allowed to vote in France? With 221…
There's nothing wrong with Macron's war on Islamism
It’s always the French, isn’t it? Not content with having given the modern world existentialism, structuralism, deconstructionism (with some help…
Are we dangerously addicted to Quantitative Easing?
For such a radical change to our monetary system, the lack of understanding of quantitative easing (QE) and its impacts…
My country, right or left
A funny thing happened to me this Fourth of July and, at the risk of having every jaded member of…
Anti-anti-crime policies are ruining American cities
I didn’t meet Davell Gardner Jr. Yet his photo — and the bubbly personality it captures — will forever remain…
Tory conference to require vaccine passports
Boris Johnson’s announcement on Monday that Covid passports could be introduced for mass events from September did not got down…
Pope Francis is losing his culture war
Since I wroteabout the Pope’s declaration of war on the Old Rite, something unexpected and beautiful has happened. Many bishops…
How do the Tories stop the rise of an ever-bigger state?
When Gordon Brown raised National Insurance in 2002 to put more money into the health service, it was seen as…
What the NHS pay rise says about Boris Johnson's priorities
Well, that didn’t take long. Two days ago, a leaked report revealed that the government was considering using a national insurance…
Myanmar is on the verge of collapse
Deep in southeast Asia sits a country where 54 million people are living a total nightmare. A nation that, benighted…
The disgraceful decision to remove Liverpool’s heritage status
Unesco has cancelled the ‘World Heritage Status’ of the Necropolis at Memphis and the Giza Pyramid because a Radisson Blu…
Northern Irish unionists are united against the protocol
The DUP’s departed leader Edwin Poots spoke in his valedictory interview of a ‘significant victory’ heading unionism’s way regarding its…
The Troubles amnesty and the hypocrisy of Sinn Fein
Predictably – and understandably – the Northern Ireland Office’s proposed amnesty for crimes relating to the Troubles has resulted in…
The Brave New World of ‘sex-positive’ education
The first time I read Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, I was thrown by the references to children as young as…
Gove addresses Westminster rumours
The wine was flowing at last night’s Policy Exchange summer soirée as attendees unburdened themselves of the stresses of the past…
The truth about Nick Gibb, history and ‘dead white men’
In 1983, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a great American sociologist and politician, wrote: ‘Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but…
The tragedy of the Texas COVID-crats
Last week, Texas Democrats fled the state on a chartered plane to Washington DC, maskless with a case of Miller…
When will Boris get serious about balancing the budget?
Should we be pleased that net government borrowing for June came in below expectations, at £22.8 billion – £5.5 billion…
Tehran is repeating the Shah's mistakes
The Iranian province of Khuzestan is oil-rich but water-poor. At the best of times, the southwestern region is a problem…
The problem with polling
If you did an opinion poll about opinion polls, chances are most people would recognise the limitations of market research,…
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…
Will PETA be given a veto on all UK policy?
The government’s flagship Animal Sentience Bill is (slowly) making its way through parliament, with Monday afternoon seeing the Defra select committee…
Boris's Brexit deal isn’t worth sacrificing Northern Ireland for
There will be chaos at the borders. Food will run out at the supermarkets. Travellers will face long queues, and…
Six things we’re unlikely to read in Prince Harry’s memoir
In a fresh bid to secure privacy for himself and his family, Prince Harry has announced this week that he…
