While some folks talk a big game about principles, what they really prefer is someone socking it to their enemies. Donald Trump won in 2016 because he could be relied on to punch every conceited political moraliser and mediocre pseudo-intellectual who attempted to stand in his way

Engineer and polymath Peter Fenwick built a great company by marching to his own drummer, always with integrity to the fore. His thoughts on topics diverse as economics, leadership, ethics and liberty have produced two books and a fascinating conversation with Quadrant's Edward Cranswick

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Before he fell out with his president and was ejected from the White House, and after that from Breitbart News, Steve Bannon was the influence who crystalised and codified Donald Trump's thinking. Gone he might be from the locus of power, but not, to date, the legacy of his prescription for US renewal

In The Strange Death of Europe   Douglas Murray notes among other dispiriting statistics that 130,000 women in Britain have suffered from female genital mutilation. That barbarity has been illegal for three decades, yet no one has been successfully prosecuted