It is easy to scoff at the middle-class pretensions of Canterbury Cathedral’s current graffiti display. As Joseph Dinnage, the deputy editor of this publication, notes on X, it looks as though the cathedral has been turned ‘into a South London youth club c.2005’. The style of the temporary graffiti they have plastered on the ancient […]
Last week, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner warned that the effects of immigration and social cohesion, among other factors such as rapid de-industrialisation, was having a profound impact on society and trust in public institutions. However, she expressed the belief that Britain was a successful multi-ethnic, multi-faith democracy – but how right is she? Rayner’s […]
There is much discussion right now about the dysfunctionality of UK politics. This goes beyond complaints about the policy incoherence or ineffectuality of any particular government, whether that be the current one or its Tory and Coalition predecessors. Rather, there is a growing feeling that the political system itself, the whole process of politics, no […]
In this edition of Nimby Watch, James Ball journeys to… actually, this week let’s just jump right in. Okay, where are we this week? We’re visiting an idyllic village, somewhere people apparently move for a slower pace of life, to enjoy the peace and quiet and to have uninterrupted access by road to anywhere they’d […]
It’s a crescendo as predictable as a chorus from the latest chart-topper – and unfortunately in a minor key. Late last week, a High Court judge ruled that Lambeth Council had bodged the planning process for the Brockwell Live festival series, throwing into doubt whether the events can go ahead at all. Brockwell Live had been […]
‘Up Hamas, up Hezbollah!’ I don’t know about you, but if I was at a gig and heard a band yelling that to the crowd of adoring fans, I’d assume that they quite liked Hamas and Hezbollah. Just like if I walked the streets screaming ‘Millwall!’ at people, you could reasonably infer that I was […]
War often has a chilling effect on freedom. Sometimes this is necessary. Being at war necessitates restrictions that would be completely out of place in normal society. This expectation is even written into international law, with clear examples and acceptable reasons – especially during war – for restrictions on human rights and personal freedoms. Yet […]
Far from bringing any sense of national cohesion, St George’s Day this year seems to have set politicians and commentators at loggerheads more than ever. It is not just the row that followed the Church moving the saint’s day this year to the following week because of its clash with Easter celebrations. It is also […]
If you look through this morning’s For Women Scotland judgment for statements that wokery is dead, or that the Supreme Court trenchantly confirms that there are only two sexes, you’ll be disappointed. The judgment is actually a long, convoluted and often turgid exercise in statutory construction. Assuming that you can remain awake, what it decides […]
Free societies don’t just depend on free markets for goods and services – they rely on free and functional markets for information. Liberal democracy assumes that, given access to accurate facts, diverse viewpoints and open debate, truth will win out. But what happens when that information market is broken – when attention, not accuracy, becomes […]
Unless you’ve been living under a rock on a distant planet, you’ve heard the name Andrew Tate. And no, don’t worry, I’m not here to endorse him. I don’t buy into his philosophies, his alpha posturing or his digital pyramid scheme disguised as mentorship. But I do object to the media’s obsession with him – […]
Neither Suella Braverman nor Konstantin Kisin identify as English. It is odd that they have decided to declare new rules for who can be English – and ones which the broad majority of those who consider themselves as English would reject.‘He is brown and Hindu – how can he be English?’, Kisin, the fast-talking host […]
Between rumours that its current lead might have been planning an early exit, plummeting viewing figures and seemingly never-ending criticism that ‘Doctor Who’ has gone woke, there is a low-level murmur of online speculation that the BBC might be about to, or indeed should call time on the long-running show. If the TARDIS’ current inhabitant […]
Across the Western world, we live in an age of almost unlimited prosperity, freedom and opportunity. While much of the rest of the world continues to suffer from the scourges that have plagued humanity since the dawn of time, the average Western citizen is remarkably free from the risk of starvation, preventable disease and crushing […]
The Prime Minister is correct to aim to make the UK an ‘AI superpower’ and the ‘best place to start and scale an AI business’. To carry through this ambition, the Government will need to make difficult decisions: we will need to invest in energy infrastructure, provide datasets to developers and attract top global talent. […]
The year is 1980, and 44 years have passed since Britain’s socialist revolution. A new generation has grown up, which has no active memories of capitalism, and only a hazy concept of what ‘capitalism’ even was. This is the premise of the book ‘The First Workers Government‘ by Gilbert Mitchison, published in 1934. An unnamed […]
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