Get ready for the Trump Slump
Improbable though it may seem, a bombing raid on Iran may, like the proverbial Chinese butterfly flapping its wings and causing faraway chaos, trigger disparate distant ructions. Not only could…
Can Team Trump save Western Civ?
“Rights are not something that are created by governments. Natural rights belong to all human beings on account of their nature as human beings, they’re unchanging, and they can’t be…
How Wendell Berry saved my life
I owe Wendell Berry my life. Not literally, of course, but maybe in a deeper and more important sense, the life that I now lead. Considering myself truly blessed with…
AI is Trump’s Manhattan Project
What is science? This used to be a test question at school, but it is now a test question for society. Today, we are in the midst of a historic…
The man who made bin Laden
As we approach the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Osama bin Laden will inevitably be seen as the attack’s bloody architect. Yet if the Saudi remains a jihadi icon, the extremists…
Andy Burnham meets reality
In the Seventies, a phrase emerged in Left-wing circles: “actually-existing socialism.” It had been used by Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker, the communist leaders of the Soviet Union and East…
Could the Middlesbrough crime spree spread?
The first people I spoke to in Middlesbrough told me to fuck off. He was drinking lager and kicking a tennis ball for a cocker spaniel; she was sitting outside…
Could the Middlesbrough crime spree spread?
The first people I spoke to in Middlesbrough told me to fuck off. He was drinking lager and kicking a tennis ball for a cocker spaniel; she was sitting outside…
Milo Yiannopoulos’ horrible homecoming
In 2017, addressing the fallout from remarks in which he appeared to condone pedophilic relationships between older men and boys, Milo Yiannopoulos held a press conference in New York. Making…