Indecent Left

Melanie Phillips once claimed that she had, in the old Irving Kristol formulation, been “mugged by reality”. I think she sustained a head...

You've probably seen that there's been a renewed fuss about Nick Cohen's book, What's Left?, occasioned by Johann Hari's...

Just in case anyone forgot, the Iraq War was not just about bringing democracy to Iraq: it was going to transform the whole Middle East. O...

Last month Norman Geras was baffled , as I suspect he often is, by a mysterious new phenomenon. “When the Euston Manifesto was published i...

The praise Cohen has garnered for his new book is predictable enough – what else would The Spectator say? However, even the unimpressed r...

I wrote this last year, but didn’t post it, mainly because I felt there was too much Kamm-watching on here. I still think there is, but si...

As people might have noticed, there hasn't been anything new on here for some time. Let me take this opportunity then, to retrospective...