At a time when British Jews may feel disrespected and even threatened in a way they have rarely been in … Continue reading “Remembering Leslie Hore-Belisha: the man behind the “Belisha Beacons””

…continued from Part 2   Winning the argument The BLM-mania of the early 2020s struck me as a period of woke … Continue reading “The 2010s: A decade in review (Part 3 of 3)”

Contents Summary Transgender ideology and the rights of trans people to dress or present themselves as they wish must be … Continue reading “Transgender ideology: A new threat to liberal values”

Increasing crime rates are always cause for concern, but the UK’s pathetically low rates of crime solving are making the … Continue reading “Protection, containment, and restitution – a liberal vision of criminal justice”

Recent ONS figures show that in 2022, net migration into the UK exceeded 600,000 people, with more than 1m people … Continue reading “Why we should not obsess about headline net migration figures”

A common interpretation of the “Great Awokening” is that for the radical Left, identity politics has replaced economics. The story, … Continue reading “On woke anti-capitalism”

The great advantage of single-issue groups is that they can build broad coalitions of people who otherwise agree on little … Continue reading “Why are so many successful social movements anti-capitalist? (Part 1)”

“Politics is the pastime of empty souls.” -Nicolás Gómez Dávila   Introduction: Political Britain Remember political apathy? Until about the … Continue reading “In defence of political apathy (Part 1)”

Introduction Over the past couple of years, I have written a lot about how socialists always disown every socialist project … Continue reading “Has “real” Trussonomics never been tried? A postmortem of the Truss/Kwarteng project”