Ariana Grande and the eating-disorder internet
All around us, famous women are shrinking. The age of GLP-1s — or “lifestyle changes”, as PR people call them — has taken out a league of formerly large ladies.…
How socialist transplants ruined my New York
Growing up in the Ridgewood neighborhood of Queens, I avoided talking about where I lived. In high school, I said Flushing, the nearest neighborhood anyone knew. At work, I said…
Does Manchesterism need Miliband?
Last I checked, Ed Miliband was not the kind of politician to show a fondness for sunglasses, army epaulets and armored cars; yet this was the image Kemi Badenoch attempted…
Do violent incels dream of orgies in the sky?
Last week in Montreal, a 25-year-old man allegedly attempted to assassinate the CEO of PornHub for ruining his life by preventing him from finding a girlfriend. The shooter, Seth Scott…
What Burnham shares with Farage
What can be said of British politics over the 10 years precisely separating Brexit and Burnham’s Makerfield ascension? It has been, for those wishing reform of Britain’s sclerotic and increasingly…
How America went awry
Over recent years, few writers have been quoted as incessantly as Hannah Arendt. Or rather misquoted — for though Donald Trump’s first presidential win catapulted Arendt’s 1951 book on totalitarianism…
How the Constitution failed America
Next month, Americans mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence from the British Empire. Although the present US Constitution was written in 1787, ratified in 1788, and first…
Size mattered for the Founding Fathers
In the summer of 1776, just a few weeks after the Thirteen Colonies had declared their independence, George Washington was in New York, preparing for the first and biggest fight…
Labour’s war on gay rights
The Labour Party is waging war on gay people. As one of Keir Starmer’s parting shots, his government is about to introduce the single most anti-gay piece of legislation since…
Why Burnhamomics will fail
Britain’s political journalists have already settled on a narrative for Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham. Starmer, they’ve decided, was simply not a politician. He entered politics late in life and…