We have built up all kinds of narratives about the struggle to lose weight, then along comes science and sweeps the difficulties aside.
Helen Dale
Rob Henderson’s memoir stings us by revealing the consequences of our own luxury beliefs.
The controversy over Nazis on Substack highlights the shift from "debate your enemies" to "destroy your enemies."
The superstitio in our universities may lead those institutions to the same fate as the monasteries under Henry VIII.
An imported "oppressor-oppressed" ideology ran smack-dab into the intensely democratic and egalitarian Australian political order.
Wokery likes to make morality plays out of the past, but the past refuses to cooperate.
Given the realities of global economics, parlaying black poverty and historical disadvantage for moral victim points only goes so far.
If higher education is about signaling academic attainment, then it helps no-one when the signal is scrambled.
Matthew Goodwin shows how values, voice, and virtues in the United Kingdom have led to new divides and political volatility.
In the battle over children's literature, we ought to remember that the distinction between words and deeds is a key marker of civilisation.
The First Minister thought the trans issue would pave the road to Scottish independence. Instead, it showed her the door.
Konstantin Kisin holds a mirror up to the self-loathing progressive West.
Andrew Doyle's The New Puritans is perhaps the best attempt so far to define the woke movement.
How many men guilty of sexual assault crimes should the legal system set free?
The destructiveness and strangeness of modern animal rights activism was presaged by bizarre animal law dating back centuries.
Intersectional feminism’s goal of a no-stigma society is nonsense.
Why would we blame writers for what they write instead of the readers who take offense at what they read?
A lawyer's response to psychiatrist, a philosopher, and an historian about the state of the United Kingdom.
Devolution's quasi-federalism may end up cracking the Union apart.
Americans are individually charming and pleasant people who deploy their wits to get around a state that doesn’t work.
Stout Ukrainian defiance has reminded us of the difference between the good and bad sorts of nationalism.
Putin is using a terrible history in a disingenuous way to feed his obsession with "Ukrainian Nazis."
Despite being rejected by the purveyors of "prestige opinion," Neil Oliver refuses to be anything other than himself.
Andrew Doyle is concerned, as we all should be, that free speech has become a "right-wing” issue.
How did the Liberal Democrats end nearly 200 years of Tory control in North Shropshire?
Ayaan Hirsi Ali makes the contentious claim that immigrants are not at bottom interchangeable widgets.
Let Musk take his chance with solving world hunger. We may be pleasantly surprised.
Activists often claim a kind of sacred wisdom about transgender issues. But in the UK, at least, that's now up for debate.
The Great American Race Game offers a British take on America's race problem.
Peter Singer's new edition of Apuleius' Golden Ass has generated controversy, but not the insight into law and morals that it should.
In Remaking One Nation, Nick Timothy emerges both as a legal positivist and a civic nationalist, arguing for a high view of citizenship.
You and I may be able to fly by the seat of our pants, but people in the business of doling out life-altering hormones and major surgery should not.
Once in the realm of science fiction, practical genetic intelligence enhancement is closer than ever.
Facts may not care about your feelings, but feelings have better lobbyists.
One of the most successful parody accounts on Twitter, Andrew Doyle’s invention offers a picture of intersectional activism’s most deranged impulses.
The UK and EU have achieved their shared ambition to remove tariffs and quotas on all goods, but the deal will have larger consequences.
When we stop looking at the past with seriousness, we make it more difficult to understand and contextualise our own commitments.
People will not stand to see their cathedrals burned, their teachers beheaded, and their journalists massacred.
Even if you produce good ideas, bad salesmen have almost limitless capacity to ensure no one is tempted to buy.
Williamson sets out how the British social democratic tradition focused on achieving significant economic equality and (close to) full employment.
No, it’s not just you. We’re all—nation-states included—in over our heads.
This isn't a world-historical crisis but it will enormously amplify and accelerate trends already present in our world.
There is a foot-stamping petulance to the phrases “trans rights are human rights” and “trans women are women,” as though saying either makes it so.
These are views that I now hold because Roger Scruton had been my teacher.
The Conservative Party’s immense election victory means it must bind up the wounds the referendum and subsequent polarisation opened in the body politic.
Billed as the most significant election since Clement Attlee’s 1945 Labour landslide, the outcome will determine whether Brexit happens at all.
What happens when a hero in Australian rugby speaks out about his faith?
Parliament is the only body with the legitimacy to settle Brexit and restore a functional relationship between the political class and the electors.
Britain is no longer in a constitutional crisis, it's in a constitutional swamp.
Helen Dale reviews two new books that investigate the explosion of economic growth and what constitutes it.
While Boris is immensely popular with the electorate, he infuriates many metropolitan liberals and other elements of the moral-peacocking classes.
Is there really a resurgent modern variation of Roman paganism present in developed liberal democracies, including the United States?
The Tories, the civil service, and Labour are tripping over each other and falling down separate flights of stairs while the nation watches in dismay.