Kemi Badenoch’s “ming vase” must be shattered
The Conservative candidate should not be allowed to escape scrutiny
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
British industry has forgotten how to use its voice
Corporate cowards are not standing up to the government
The age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
Strictly Come Tory
Who will win the hearts of the nation?
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Out of power for half a century
As the Conservatives face the prospect of a long spell in opposition, they must heed the lessons of their predecessors
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Why I, as a mother…
Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
Pornhub exposed
The tenth most visited website in the world was effectively castrated by a middle-aged American mum
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
Just the tonic
Rediscover the forgotten treasure of Australia: fortified wines
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
Is this just fantasy?
Sir Brian May is wrong: farmers do care
