Keir Starmer’s lethal legacy
A friend tells a blood-curdling anecdote about visiting Moscow for work, in that End of History interregnum, when the West still did business with the…
What young Republicans are telling us
Last week, Politico reported on a 2,900-page document-dump of chats among young Republican leaders in several states. It turned up shocking use of N-words and rape jokes and gleeful gas-chamber…
Invasion of the literary bots
Jamir Nazir, Sharon Aruparayil, John Edward DeMicoli, and Holly Ann Miller are all heroes. Don’t misunderstand me too quickly. Read more The futility of retiree protests On May 15, the…
The futility of retiree protests
When I moved to Moscow in early 1997, Russia was still in the high days of gangster capitalism. The country had been pillaged by a corrupt elite, living standards had…
On Bonnie Blue and Roger Scruton
This article was first published on 29 July 2025. *** Variety is the spice of life and all that. Last Thursday I was at Channel 4, attending the premiere of…
How (not) to launch a Labour coup
Successful democratic coups are strange things. They must appear both ruthless and constitutional at once. Too much brutality and the plotters look unhinged. Too much procedural delicacy and the leader…
Looksmaxxing is the new trans
On Christmas Eve, the 20-year-old “looksmaxxing” internet personality Clavicular ran over a man with his Cybertruck. The viral stream shows an individual, purportedly a stalker, agitating at the car’s windshield;…
Britain’s Atlantic subordination
Mythology does not record whether Cassandra, whose double curse was the gift of prophecy fated to be ignored, felt at least some glimmers of satisfaction as her city of Troy…
Agatha Christie and the red scare
“The crime novel,” said Bertolt Brecht, “like the world itself, is ruled by the English.” Well, he was right on the first count, but the British crime novelists in the…
Labour’s battle of ideas
And so, Wes Streeting has fired the first shot in a “battle of ideas” within the Labour Party. Others will call it a civil war. Yet more will ask why…
Lucy Letby’s trial by Netflix
The officers descend on the cul-de-sac. It’s early in the morning, and as they make their way into the house a woman pleads, “No!” Her daughter sits in bed, groggy…