For some among us, there comes a time when we realise our teenage convictions were somewhat misguided. We discover that our parents’ dusty beliefs are not so terribly ill-conceived, having a much sharper understanding of the modern world than we had previously imagined. Luckiest are we who grasp this while still young, before our parents’ departure.

Anyone who has read me knows full well that I can't bear the identitarian politics bandwagon and increasingly I've been...

The England manager is the best since Sir Alf Ramsey but his flirtation with identity politics is a problem and...

Medical research seldom shoulders the burden of such hope and faith as it does today. Widely considered to be our...

The CRED report is a brave but necessary one in terms of education, a field in which too often policy changes are advanced based on gross generalisations made from anecdotal evidence and experience and unevidenced assertions about what is taught.

The High Court has ruled that the government’s policy of allowing pubs only to serve alcohol with ‘substantial meals’ may...

Review of Paul Embery, Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021 June 23rd 2016...

A great essay on Caliban and colonialism from the brilliant Harry Cluff.

The political commentator and activist Darren Grimes and the historian David Starkey are being investigated by the police for an...

A different take on diversity from the brilliant Lily Geidelberg.