Anthony Daniels
Official Complaint
Immigration officials may be fearsome but they act as no deterrent against illegal immigrants
Flagging Loyalty
The cross of St George is everywhere, and is a symbol of the militant ugliness of countless English people
Litter Bugged
Ludicrous Health and Safety measures in our schools mean that children are wearing knee-pads to prevent scrapes while they play in litter-strewn playgrounds.
Seat Cheats
The enormous hidden costs of low-cost air travel are symptomatic of a disturbing cultural shift
Soppy Sop
Our justice system suffers from a sentimental preoccupation with legally irrelevant testimony to victims’ personalities
Dear Sir or Madam
Our refusal to address others as ‘Sir’ or ‘Madam’ stems from our ideological revulsion against hierarchy
Raymond Tallis
The philosopher-physician should be praised for swimming against the post-modernist current
The Cap Doesn’t Fit
Why do so many people insist on wearing baseball caps? Is it from a perverse desire to look stupid?
Second Life
Charity shops are now a British peculiarity, but their bookshelves often contain real gems amongst the airport fiction
Shelf Life
Being a shelf-stacker at a supermarket is not a dishonourable occupation, and we should be thankful for those that do it
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts