The Naivety of Well-Meaning Christian Leaders
The Church of England and the failures of interfaith politics.
British Politics
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Liberals Without Teeth
British liberals exclude reactionary cranks like Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur because they don’t have the stomach for a fight.
The Murder of Henry Nowak and the Politics of Certainty
This case shows how quickly tragedy becomes raw material for those who seek to exploit it.
Britain’s Half-Measures on Iran
As Iranian agents surveil London’s Jewish communities and IRGC-backed plots multiply, Britain’s failure to proscribe the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps endangers UK citizens.
Thatcher Warned Us to Go Slow on European Integration. Too Bad We Didn’t Listen
She believed that Europe should not be a centralizing power that incubated supranational institutions—particularly as this model of centralization was just then in the throes of spectacular failure within the Soviet Union.
Keynes Has Left the Building: Remembering the 1976 Speech That Changed Modern Britain
Callaghan’s speech, a paean to the virtues of austerity economics several decades before the 2008 financial crisis, was a watershed moment in British politics.
The Case for a Second EU Referendum
The fate of the withdrawal agreement, and indeed the country at large, cannot depend on “he said, she said” accusations and counter-accusations.
Want to Take Back Control? Then Abolish the Rule of Lords
The British people voted to reject an institution that curtails the will of people, that serves crony business interests before democracy, and that promotes nepotism.